WEBB CITY
Online Encyclopedia
Originally appearing in Volume
V28,
Page 455
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
WEBB CITY
, a city of Jasper county, Missouri, U.S.A., in the S.W. part of the state, about 16o m
.
S. of Kansas City
.
Pop
.
(1890) 5043; (1900) 9201, of whom 248 were foreign- born; (1910 U.S. census) 11,817
.
It is served by the Missouri Pacific and the St See also: - LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis & San Francisco railway systems, and is the headquarters of the electric interurban railway connecting with Carthage and Joplin, Missouri, Galena, Kansas and other cities
.
With Carterville (pop
.
1910, 4539), which adjoins it on the E., it forms practically one city; they are among the most famous and productive " camps " in the rich lead and zinc region of south-western Missouri, and Webb City owes its industrial importance primarily to the mining and shipping of those metals
.
The value of the factory product increased from $353,566 in 1900 to $637,965 in 1905
.
Webb City was laid out and incorporated as a town in 1875, and first chartered as a city in 1876
.
See also: - WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
White lead was discovered here in 1873, on the farm of John C
.
Webb, in whose honour the city is named; and systematic mining began in 1877
.
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