MUSKEGON  , 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 Muskegon county, See also:

• MICHIGAN
• MICHIGAN, LAKE
• MICHIGAN, UNIVERSITY OF

Michigan, U.S.A., on Muskegon See also:

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

lake, an expansion of Muskegon See also:

• RIVER

river near its mouth, about 4 in. from Lake Michigan and 38 in . N.W. of See also:

• GRAND

Grand Rapids . . Pop . (18go), 22,702; (1900), 20,818, of whom 6236 were See also:

• FOREIGN

foreign-See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born; (1910 See also:

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

census) 24,062 . It is served by the Grand See also:

• TRUNK (Fr. tronc, Lat. truncus, cut off, maimed)

Trunk, the Pere See also:

• MARQUETTE
• MARQUETTE, JACQUES (1637–1675)

Marquette, the Grand Rapids & See also:

• INDIANA

Indiana, and the Grand Rapids, Grand Haven & Muskegon (electric) See also:

• RAILWAYS

railways, and by steamboat lines to See also:

• CHICAGO
• CHICAGO, UNIVERSITY OF

Chicago, See also:

• MILWAUKEE

Milwaukee and other lake ports . There are several summer resorts in the vicinity . As the gifts of See also:

• CHARLES
• CHARLES (1270-1325)
• CHARLES (1421-1461)
• CHARLES (1525-1574)
• CHARLES (c. 1319-1364)
• CHARLES (Fr. Charles; Span. Carlos; Ital. Carlo; Ger. Karl; derived from O.H.G. Charal,latinized as Carolus, meaning originally " man ": cf. Mod.Ger., Kerl," fellow," A.S. ceorl, Mod. Eng. " churl ")
• CHARLES (KARL EITEL ZEPHYRIN LUDWIG; in Rum. CAROL)
• CHARLES [KARL ALEXANDER] (1712-1780)
• CHARLES, ELIZABETH (1828-1896)
• CHARLES, JACQUES ALEXANDRE CESAR (1746-1823)
• CHARLES, THOMAS (1755-1814)

Charles H . Hackley (1837-1905), a See also:

• RICH, BARNABE (c. 1540-1617)
• RICH, CLAUDIUS JAMES (1787-1821)
• RICH, JOHN (1692-1761)
• RICH, PENELOPE, LADY (c. 1562–1607)
• RICH, RICHARD, 1ST BARON RICH (1490?-1567)

rich lumberman, the city has an endowment fund to the public See also:

• SCHOOLS

schools of about $2,000,000; a See also:

• MANUAL

manual training school, which has an endowment of $600,000, and is one of the few endowed public schools in the See also:

• UNITED

United States; a public library, with an endowment of $275,000; a public See also:

• HOSPITAL (Lat. haspitalis, the adjective of hospes, host or guest)

hospital with a $600,000 endowment; and a See also:

• DOOR (corresponding to the Gr. Bbpa,. Lat. fores or valvae; the English word, with other forms common in allied languages, comes from the same Indo-European stem as the Gr. Obpa and Lat. fares)

Door fund endowment of $300,000 . In Hackley See also:

• PARK (Fr. part; Ital. parco; Sp. Marque; O.Eng. pearroc; connected with Ger. pferch, fold, and pfarrei, district, translating med. Lat. parochia, parish)
• PARK, EDWARDS AMASA (1808–1900)
• PARK, MUNGO (1771-1806?)

Park there are statues of See also:

• LINCOLN
• LINCOLN, ABRAHAM (1809-1865)
• LINCOLN, EARLS OF

Lincoln and See also:

• FARRAGUT, DAVID GLASGOW (1801-1870)

Farragut, and at the Hackley School there is a statue of See also:

• MCKINLEY, WILLIAM (1843—1901)

McKinley; all three are by C . H . See also:

• NIEHAUS, CHARLES HENRY (1855— )

Niehaus . The See also:

• MUNICIPALITY

municipality owns and operates its See also:

• WATER

water-See also:

• WORKS

works .

Muskegon lake is 5 M. See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long and 11 m. wide, with a See also:

• DEPTH

depth of 30 to 40 ft., and is See also:

• ICE (a word common to Teutonic languages; cf. Ger. Eis)

ice-See also:

• FREE

free throughout the See also:

• YEAR

year . The channel from Muskegon lake to Lake Michigan has been improved to a depth of 20 ft. and a width of 300 ft. by the Federal See also:

• GOVERNMENT
• GOVERNMENT (0. Fr. governement, mod. gouvernement, O. Fr. governer, mod. gouverner, from Lat. gubernare, to steer a ship, guide, rule; cf. Gr. xv(3epvav)

government since 1867 . From Muskegon are shipped large quantities of See also:

• LUMBER

lumber and See also:

• MARKET (Lat. mercatus, trade or place of trade)

market-See also:

• GARDEN (from O. Fr. garden, mod. Fr. jardin; this, like our words " garth," a paddock attached to a building, and " yard," comes from a Teutonic word for an enclosure which appears in Gothic as gards and O. H. Ger. gart, cf. Dutch gaarde and Ger. .garten)

garden produce, besides the numerous manufactures of the city . The See also:

• TOTAL

total value of all factory products in 1904 was $6,319,441 (39.6 % more than in 1900), of which more than one-See also:

• SIXTH

sixth was the value of lumber . A trading See also:

• POST

post was established here in 1812, but a permanent See also:

• SETTLEMENT
• SETTLEMENT, ACT OF

settlement was not established until 1834 . Muskegon was laid out as a See also:

• TOWN

town in 1849, incorporated as a See also:

• VILLAGE

village in 1861, and chartered as a city in 1869 . The name is probably derived from a Chippewa word, maskeg or muskeg, meaning " grassy See also:

• BOG (from Ir. and Gael. bogach, bog, soft)

bog," still used in that sense in See also:

• NORTH
• NORTH, BARONS
• NORTH, MARIANNE (1830—1890)
• NORTH, ROGER (1653-1734)
• NORTH, SIR THOMAS (1535?-16o1?)

north-western See also:

• AMERICA

America .