NORMAN  , a

city and township (coextensive) and the county-seat of Cleveland county, Oklahoma, U.S.A., about 2 M . N. of the Canadian river, and 18 m . S. by E. of Oklahoma City . Pop . (189o) 787; (1900) 2225; (1910) 3724 . It is served by the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railway . It is the seat of the university of Oklahoma (chartered, 1892; opened 1894; coeducational), which includes a college of arts and sciences, schools of applied science,medicine, pharmacy, mines and fine arts, and a preparatory school, and in 1908 had 56 instructors and 790 students . The Oklahoma Insane Asylum is in the city . Cotton-seed oil, flour and ice are manufactured, and the neighbouring region produces much cotton, Indian corn, oats, alfalfa and wheat . Hogs, cattle and sheep are raised . The first settlement here was made in 1889, and Norman was chartered as a city in 1902 .