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Encyclopedia Britannica



ATCHISON

This article appears in Volume V02, Page 824 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: ARN-AUD
ATCHISON , a city and the county-seat of Atchison county, Kansas, U.S.A., on the west bank of the Missouri river, which is navigable 'at this point but is utilized comparatively little .for commerce. Pop. (1890) 13,965; (1900) 15,722, of whom 25o8 were of negro descent . and 1308 were foreign-born; (row) 16,429. Atchison is served by the Atchison, Topeka & Santa FE, the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, the Chicago ,
Rock
 
Island
  & Pacific, and the Missouri Pacific railways. The city is the seat of Midland College (Lutheran, 1887), St Benedict's College (Roman Catholic, 1858) for boys, Mt. Scholastica
Academy
  (Roman Catholic) for girls, and Western Theological
Seminary
  (Evangelical-Lutheran, 1843); a state soldiers' orphans'
home
  is , also located here. Atchison's situation and transportation facilities make it an important
supply
 -centre, its trade in grains and live-stock being particularly large; it has large railway machine shops, and its principal manufactures are flour, furniture, lumber, hardware and drugs. The value of the city's factory
products increased from $2,093,469 in 1900 to $4,052,274 in 1905, or 93.6 %. Atchison was founded in 1854 by pro-slavery partisans, and was named in honour of their leader,
David
 
Rice
  Atchison, a United States senator. The city was quickly surpassed by Leavenworth in commercial importance, and during the Kansas struggle was never of
great
  political importance. Its first city charter was granted in 1858. The Atchison Globe (established 1878) is one of the best-known of western papers.


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