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JEFFERSON CITY (legally and officially the City.of Jefferson) , the capital of Missouri, U.S.A., and the county-seat of Cole county, on the Missouri river, near the geographical centre of the state, about 125 m. W. of St Louis. Pop. (189o), 6742; (1900), 9664, of whom 786 were foreign-born and 1822 were negroes; (10 to census), 11,85o. It is served by the Missouri Pacific, the Chicago & Alton, and the Missouri, Kansas & Texas
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mansion . The penitentiary is to a large extent self-supporting; in 19031904 the earnings were $3493.80 in excess of the costs, but in 19041906 the costs exceeded the earnings by $9044. Employment is furnished for the convicts on the pentitentiary premises by incorporated companies. The state law library here is one of the best of the kind in the country, and the city has a public library. In the city is Lincoln Institute, a school for negroes, founded in 1866 by two regiments of negro infantry upon their discharge from the United States army, opened in 1868, taken over by the state in 1879, and having sub-normal, normal, college, industrial and agricultural courses. Coal and limestone are found near the city. In 19o5 the total value of the factory product was $3,926,632, an increase of 28.2% since 19oo. The original
capital should be on the Missouri river within 40 M. of the mouth of the Osage, and a commission selected in 1821 the site of Jefferson City, on which a town was laid out in 1822, the name being adopted in honour of Thomas Jefferson. The legislature first met here in 1826; Jefferson City became the county-seat in 1828, and in 1839 was first chartered as a city. The constitutional conventions of 1845 and 1875, and the state convention which issued the call
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