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VALPARAISO

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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 865 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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VALPARAISO  , a

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city and the
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county-seat of
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Porter county,
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Indiana, U.S.A., about 40 M . S.E. of
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Chicago . Pop . (189o) 5090; (1900) 628o, including 66o
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foreign-
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born; (19ro) 6987 . It is served by the
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Grand
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Trunk, the New
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York, Chicago & St
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Louis, and the
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Pennsylvania
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railways . The city has a public library (1905), and is the seat of an
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Institute of Telegraphy (founded in 1874; chartered in 1900) and of Valparaiso University (1873; formerly known as the Valparaiso Normal Training School) . This university was founded to furnish a
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practical
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education at a
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low cost, and in 1910 had 187 instructors and a
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total enrolment of 5367 students . Valparaiso was settled about 1835, incorporated in 1856 as a
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village and chartered as a city in 1865 .

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