ADRIAN

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ADRIAN , a city and the county-seal of Lenawee county, Michigan, U.S.A., on the S. branch of Raisin river; near the S.E. corner of the state. Pop.(189o) 8756 ; (1900) 9654, of whom
1136 were foreign-born: (1Q10 census) 10,763. It is served by five branches of the Lake Shore railway system, and by the Wabash, the Toledo and Western, and the Toledo,

Detroit

DETROIT

and Ironton railways. Adrian is the seat of Adrian College (1859; co-educational), controlled by the Wesleyan Methodist Church in 1859-1867 and since 1867 by the Methodist

Protestant

PROTESTANT

Church, and having departments of literature, theology, music, fine arts, commerce and pedagogy, and a preparatory school; and of St Joseph's

Academy

ACADEMY, GREEK
ACADEMY, ROYAL

(Roman Catholic) for girls; and r m. north of the city is the State Industrial

Home

for Girls (1879), for the reformation of juvenile offenders between the ages of ten and seventeen. Adrian has a public library. The city is situated in a

rich

farming region; is an important shipping point for live-stock,

grain

GRAIN (derived through the French from Lat. granum, seed, from an Aryan root meaning " to wear down," which also appears in the common Teutonic word " corn ")

and other farm products; and is especially known as a centre for the manufacture of wire-fences. Among the other manufactories are flouring and grist mills, planing mills, foundries, and factories for making agricultural implements, United States

mail

MAIL

boxes, furniture, pianos, organs, automobiles, toys and electrical supplies. The value of the city's factory products increased from $2,124,923 in 1900 to $4,897,426 in 1904, or 130'5%; of the total value in 1904, $2,849,648 was the value of wire-

work

WORK

. The place was laid out as a town in 1828, and according to tradition was named in honour of the Roman emperor Hadrian. It was incorporated as a

village

VILLAGE

in 1836, was made the county-seat in 1838 and was chartered as a city in 1853

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