AMSTERDAM

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AMSTERDAM , a city of Montgomery county, New

York

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, U.S.A., on the north bank of the Mohawk river, about 33 M. N.W. of Albany. Pop. (189o) 17,336; (1900) 20,929, of whom 5575 were foreign-born; (1910) 31,267. It is served by the New

York

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  Gothic
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YORK, EDMUND OF
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- LANGLEY, SAMUEL PIERPONT (1834-1906)
, DUKE OF (1341-1402)
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, DUKE OF (1763-1827)
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Central & Hudson River and the West Shore railways, and by the

Erie

ERIE

Canal. Hills on both sides of the river command fine views of the Mohawk Valley. Amsterdam has two hospitals, a free public library and St Mary's Institute (Roman Catholic). Manufacturing is the most important industry, and carpets and rugs, hosiery and knit goods are the most important products. In 1905 the city's factory products were valued at $15,007,276 (an increase of 41 % over their value in 1900); carpets and rugs being valued at $5,667,742, and hosiery and knit goods (in the manufacture of which Amsterdam ranked third among the cities of the country) at $4,667,022, or 3.4 % of the

total

TOTAL

product of the United States. Among the other manufactures are brushes, brooms, buttons, silk gloves,

paper

PAPER
PAPER (Fr. papier, from Lat. papyrus)

boxes, electrical supplies, dyeing machines, cigars, and wagon and carriage springs. Amsterdam was settled about 1775, and was called Veedersburg
until 1804, when its present name was adopted. It was incorpor ated as a

village

VILLAGE

in 183o, and was chartered as a city in 1885.

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