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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
Academy
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 factoryproducts 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
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