BELOIT

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BELOIT , a city of

Rock

county, Wisconsin, U.S.A., situated on the S. boundary of the state, on

Rock

river, about 91 M. N.W. of Chicago and about 85 m. S.W. of Milwaukee. Pop. (189o) 6315; (1900) 10,436, of whom 1468 were foreign-born; (1910) 15,125. It is served by the Chicago & North-Western, arid the Chicago, Milwaukee & St Paul railways, and by an inter-urban electric railway to Janesville, Wisconsin and Rock-ford, Illinois. Beloit is attractively situated on high bluffs on both sides of the river. The city is the seat of Beloit College, a co-educational, non-sectarian institution, founded under the auspices of the Congregational and Presbyterian churches in 1847, and having, in 19071908, 36 instructors and 430 students. It has classical, philosophical (1874) and scientific (1892) courses;
women were first admitted in 1895. The Greek department of the college has supervised since 1895 the public presentation nearly every year of an English version of a Greek play. The river furnishes good water-power, and among the manufactures are

wood

WOOD, ANTHONY A2 (1632-1695)
WOOD, JOHN GEORGE (1827—1889)
WOOD, MRS
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- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G.
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  - HEIM, ALBERT VON ST GALLEN (1849- )
  - HEIM, FRANCOIS JOSEPH (1787-1865)
  , the Eng.
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  - HOME
  - HOME, DANIEL DUNGLAS (1833-1886)
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  LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY,
  PATRICK
  - PATRICK, SIMON (1626–1707)
  - PATRICK, ST
  (1736–1799)
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  BATTENBERG
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  (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
[ELLEN] (1814—1887)
WOOD, SEARLES VALENTINE (1798—188o)

-working machinery, ploughs, steam pumps, windmills, gas engines,

paper

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

-mill machinery, cutlery, flour, ladies' shoes, cyclometers and

paper

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

; the total value of the factory product in 1905 was $4,485,224, 6o 2 omorethanin1900. Beloit, founded by New Englanders in 1838, was chartered as a city in 1856.

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