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LINCOLN , a city of S.E .See also: Nebraska, U.S.A., county-seat of See also: Lancaster county and capital of the See also: state
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Pop
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(1900) 40,169 (5297 being See also: foreign-See also: born); (1910 census) 43,973
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It is served by the See also: Chicago, See also: Burlington & See also: Quincy, the Chicago, See also: Rock See also: Island & Pacific, the Union Pacific, the See also: Missouri Pacific and the Chicago & See also: North-Western See also: railways
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Lincoln is one of the most attractive residential cities of the See also: Middle West
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See also: Salt Creek, an affluent of the Platte See also: river, skirts the city
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On this See also: side the city has repeatedly suffered from floods
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The See also: principal buildings include a state capitol (built 1883-1889); a city-See also: hall, formerly the U.S.
See also: government See also: building (1874-1879); a county See also: court-See also: house; a federal building (1904-1906); a See also: Carnegie library (1902); a hospital for crippled See also: children (1905) and a home for the friendless, both supoorted by the state; a state penitentiary and See also: asylum for the insane, both in the suburbs; and the university of Nebraska
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In the suburbs there are three denominational See also: schools, the Nebraska Wesleyan University (Methodist Episcopal, 1888) at University Place; Union See also: College (Seventh See also: Day See also: Adventists, 1891) at College View; and Cotner University (Disciples of Christ, 1889, incorporated as the Nebraska Christian University) at See also: Bethany
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Just outside the city limits are the state See also: fair grounds, where a state fair is held annually
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Lincoln is the see of a See also: Roman Catholic bishopric
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The surrounding country is a beautiful farming region, but its immediate W. environs are predominantlySee also: bare and desolate salt-basins
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Lincoln's " factory " product increased from $2,763,484 in 1900 to $5;222,620 in 1905, or 89%, the product for 19o5 being 3.4% of the See also: total for ,the state
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The See also: municipality owns and operates its electric-See also: lighting plant and See also: water-See also: works
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The salt-springs attracted the first permanent settlers to the site of Lincoln in 1856, and settlers and freighters came long distances to reduce the brine or to scrape up the dry-weather See also: surface deposits
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In 3886-1887 the state sank a test-well 2463 ft. deep, which discredited any hope of a See also: great underground flow or deposit
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Scarcely any use is made of the salt See also: waters locally
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Lancaster county was organized extra-legally in 1859, and under legislative See also: act in 1864; Lancaster See also: village was platted and became the county-seat in 1864 (never being incorporated); and in 1867, when it contained five or six houses, its site was selected for the state capital after a hard-fought struggle between different sections of the state (see NEBRASKA).' The new city was incorporated as Lincoln (and formally declared the county-seat by the legislature) in 1869, and was chartered for the first See also: time as a city of the second class in 1871; since then its charter has been repeatedly altered
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After 1887 it was a city of the first class, and after 1889 the only member of the highest subdivision in that class
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After a " reform " See also: political See also: campaign, the ousting in 1887 of a corrupt police See also: judge by the mayor and city council, in See also: defiance of an See also: injunction of a federal court, led to a decision of the U.S
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Supreme Court, favourable to the city authorities and important in questions of See also: American municipal government
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