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

city of Trumbull county,
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Ohio, U.S.A., on the Ootacamund maintained by government . Mahoning
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river, at the mouth of the Meander and Mosquito creeks, about 55 M . E.S.E. of Cleveland . Pop . (1890) 4289; (1900) 7468 (2104
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foreign-born); (1910) 8361 . It is served by the Baltimore & Ohio, the
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Erie and the Pennsylvania
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railways, and by an interurban electric
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system .
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Coal and iron-ore are abundant in the vicinity, and the city's
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principal manufactures are
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sheet steel, sheet iron, tin, metal 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 honour of Hezekiah Niles (1777–1839), the founder and editor of the weekly Niles's
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Register (1811–1849) .

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