MEADVILLE  , a See also:

• CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city and the See also:

• COUNTY (through Norm. Fr. comae, cf. O. Fr. cunte, conk', Mod. Fr. comae, from Lat. comitatus, cf. Ital. comitato, Prov. comtat; see COUNT)

county-seat of See also:

• CRAWFORD, EARLS OF
• CRAWFORD, FRANCIS MARION (1854–1909)
• CRAWFORD, THOMAS (1814–1857)
• CRAWFORD, WILLIAM HARRIS (1772–1834)

Crawford county, See also:

• PENNSYLVANIA
• PENNSYLVANIA, UNIVERSITY OF

Pennsylvania, U.S.A., on See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French See also:

• CREEK
• CREEK (Mid. Eng. crike or creke, common to many N. European languages)

Creek, 36 m . S. of See also:

• ERIE

Erie . Pop . (1900), 10,291, of whom 912 were See also:

• FOREIGN

foreign-See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born and 173 were negroes; (1910 See also:

• CENSUS (from Lat. censere, to estimate or assess; connected by some with centum, i.e. a count by hundreds)

census) 12,780 . It is served by the Erie, and the See also:

• BESSEMER
• BESSEMER, SIR HENRY (1813-1898)

Bessemer & See also:

• LAKE
• LAKE, GERARD LAKE, 1ST VISCOUNT (1744-1808)

Lake Erie See also:

• RAILWAYS

railways . Meadville has three public parks, two See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

general hospitals and a public library, and is the seat of the Pennsylvania See also:

• COLLEGE (Collegium)

College of See also:

• MUSIC

Music, of a commercial college, of the Meadville Theological School (1844, Unitarian), and of See also:

• ALLEGHENY

Allegheny College (co-educational), which was opened in 1815, came under the general patronage of the Methodist Episcopal See also:

• CHURCH
• CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
• CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
• CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
• CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
• CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)

Church in 1833, and in 1909 had 322 students (200 men and 122 See also:

• WOMEN

women) . Meadville is the commercial centre of a See also:

• GOOD, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

good agricultural region, which also abounds in oil and natural See also:

• GAS

gas . The Erie Railroad has extensive shops here, which in 1905 employed 46.7 % of the See also:

• TOTAL

total number of wage-earners, and there are various manufactures . The factory product in 1905 was valued at $2,074,600, being 24.4 % more than that of 1900 . Meadville, the See also:

• OLDEST

oldest See also:

• SETTLEMENT
• SETTLEMENT, ACT OF

settlement in N.W . Pennsylvania, was founded as a fortified See also:

• POST

post by See also:

• DAVID
• DAVID (a Hebrew name meaning probably beloved 1)
• DAVID, FELICIEN (1810—1876)
• DAVID, GERARD [GHEERAERT DAVIT], (?=1523)
• DAVID, PIERRE JEAN (1789–1856)
• DAVID, ST (Dewi, Sant)

David See also:

• MEAD
• MEAD, LARKIN GOLDSMITH (1835— )
• MEAD, RICHARD (1673—1754)

Mead in 1793, laid out as a See also:

• TOWN

town in 1795, incorporated as a See also:

• BOROUGH (A.S. nominative burh, dative byrig, which produces some of the place-names ending in bury, a sheltered or fortified place, the camp of refuge of a tribe, the stronghold of a chieftain; cf. Ger. Burg, Fr. bor, bore, bourg)
• BOROUGH [BURROUGH, BURROWE, BORROWS], STEVEN (1525–1584)

borough in 1823 and chartered as a city in 1866 .