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BENTON HARBOR, a .city of Berrien county, Michigan, U.S.A., on the Saint Joseph river, about 1 m. from Lake Michigan (with which it is connected by a ship canal); near the S.W. corner of the state, and 1 m. N.E. of St Joseph. Pop. (189o) 3692; (1900) 6562, of whom 795 were foreign-born; (1904) 6702;
(101o) 8185. It is served by the Pere Marquette, the Michigan	C6H5CHCl2+CH3000H =CH3000I+FIC1+C6H5CHO. Central, and the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St Louis Benzaldehyde is a colourless liquid smelling of bitter almonds. railways, by electric railways to St Joseph and Niles, Mich., Its specific gravity is 1.0636 (8° C.), and it boils at 179.10 C. and South Bend, Indiana, and for a part of the year by steamboat
lines to Chicago and Milwaukee. One mile south-east of the city are a sanitarium and the Eastman mineral springs; within the city also there are springs and bath-houses. Near the city is a communistic religious community, the Israelite House of David, founded in 1903; the members believe that they are a part of the 144,000 elect (Revelation, vii, xiv) ultimately to be redeemed. Benton Harbor has a large trade in fruit (peaches, grapes, pears, cherries, strawberries, raspberries and apples) and other market garden produce raised in the vicinity The city's manufactures include fruit baskets, preserved fruits, cider, vinegar, pickles, furniture, lumber and stationers' supplies, particularly material for the " loose-leaf ledger " system of accounting. Benton Harbor, which was known as Bronson Harbor until 1865, was incorporated as a village in 1869, was chartered as a city in 1891, and in 1903 received a new charter.