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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 701 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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NILES  , a

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city of
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Trumbull
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county,
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Ohio, U.S.A., on the Ootacamund maintained by
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government . Mahoning
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river, at the mouth of the Meander and
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Mosquito creeks, about 55 M . E.S.E. of
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Cleveland . Pop . (1890) 4289; (1900) 7468 (2104
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foreign-
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born); (1910) 8361 . It is served by the
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Baltimore & Ohio, the
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Erie and the
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Pennsylvania
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railways, and by an interurban electric
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system .
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Coal and
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iron-ore are abundant in the vicinity, and the city's
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principal manufactures are
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sheet
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steel, sheet iron,
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tin,
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metal
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lath, boilers and railway cars . The
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municipality owns and operates its waterworks and electric-
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lighting plant . Niles was settled in 1832, laid out in 1834, incorporated as a
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village in 1865 and chartered as a city in 1895 . It was named (1834) in
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honour of
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Hezekiah Niles (1777–1839), the founder and editor of the weekly Niles's
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Register (1811–1849) .

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