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Encyclopedia Britannica



LEWISBURG

This article appears in Volume V16, Page 524 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: LEO-LOB
LEWISBURG , a
borough
  and the county-seat of
Union
  county,
Pennsylvania
 , U.S.A., on the W. bank of West Branch of the Susquehanna river, about 50 M. N. of Harrisburg. Pop. (190o) 3457 (6o foreign-born); (1910) 3081. It is served by the
Pennsylvania
  and the Philadelphia &
Reading
  railways. It is the seat of Bucknell University (coeducational), opened in 1846 as the university of Lewisburg and renamed in 1886 in honour of William Bucknell (1809-1890), a liberal benefactor. The university comprises a College of Liberal Arts, an
Academy
  for
Young
  Men, an Institute for
Young
  Women, and a School of Music, and in 19081909 had 50 instructors and 775 students, of whom 547 were in the College of Liberal Arts. The city is situated in a farming region, and has various manufactures, including flour,
lumber
 , furniture, woollens, nails, foundry products and carriages. Lewisburg (until about 1805 called Derrstown) was founded and laid out in 1785 by Ludwig Derr, a German, and was chartered as a
borough
  in 1812.


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