FARIBAULT

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FARIBAULT , a city and the county-seat of Rice county, Minnesota, U.S.A., on the Cannon river, at the mouth of the Straight river, about 45 M. S. of St Paul. (Pop. 189o) 652o; (1900) 7868, of whom 1586 were foreign-born; (1905) 8279; (1910) 9001. Faribault is served by the Chicago Great Western, the Chicago, Milwaukee & St Paul, and the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific railways. The city is attractively situated near a lake region widely known for its summer resorts. Faribault is the seat of the Minnesota institute for defectives, embracing the state school for the deaf (1863), the state school for the blind (1874), and the state school for the feeble-minded (1879); of three institutions under

control

CONTROL (Fr. contrdle, older form contre rolle, from Med. Lat. contra-rotulus, a counter roll or copy of a document used to check the original; there is no instance in English of the use of " control " in this, its literal, meaning)

of the

Protestant

PROTESTANT

Episcopal Churchthe Seabury divinity school (incorporated 186o), the Shattuck school (1867; incorporated in 1905), a military school for boys, and St Mary's

hall

(1866), a school for girls, founded by Bishop Whipple; and of the Roman Catholic (Dominican) Bethlehem Academy for girls. In the city are the cathedral of our Merciful Saviour (1868-1869), the first

Protestant

PROTESTANT

Episcopal church in the United States built and used as a cathedral from its opening; and the

hospital

and nurses' training school of the Minnesota

District

DISTRICT

of the Evangelical
Synod. The city has a public library, and owns and operates its own water-

supply

SUPPLY (through Fr. from Lat. supplere, to fill up)

system. There is a good water power, and among the. city's manufactures are flour, beer, shoes, furniture, rattan-ware, warehouse trucks, canned goods, cane syrup, waggons and carriages, gasolene engines, wind-mills, pianos and woollen goods. Faribault, named in honour of Jean Baptiste Faribault, a French fur-trader and

pioneer

PIONEER

who made his headquarters in the region in the latter part of the 18th century, was permanently settled about 1848, and was chartered as a city in 1872. A French millwright, N. La Croix, introduced here, about 1860, a new process of making flour, which revolutionized the industry in the United States, but his mill was soon destroyed by flood and he removed to Minneapolis, where the process was first successful on a large scale. Faribault was for many years the home of Bishop Henry Benjamin Whipple (1822-1901), the

pioneer

PIONEER

bishop (1859-1901) of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Minnesota, famous for his missionary

work

WORK

among the Indians.

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