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Encyclopedia Britannica



MANSFIELD

This article appears in Volume V17, Page 601 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: MAL-MAR
MANSFIELD , a city and the county-seat of Richland county,
Ohio
 , U.S.A., about 65 m. S.W. of
Cleveland
 . Pop. (1890), 13,473; (1900), 17,640, of whom 1781 were foreign-born; (1910 census), 20,768. It is served by the
Pennsylvania
  (Pittsburg, Ft Wayne & Chicago division), the Erie, and the
Baltimore
  &
Ohio
  railways. It is built on an
eminence
  (1150 ft.), and has two public parks, a substantial court-
house
 , a soldiers' and sailors' memorial building, a public library, a
hospital
 
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and many fine residences. It is the seat of the Ohio state reformatory. Mansfield has an extensive trade with the surrounding agricultural country, but its largest interests are in manufactures. The total factory product in 1905 was valued at $7,353,578. There are natural gas wells in the vicinity. The waterworks and the sewage disposal plant are owned and operated by the municipality. Mansfield was laid out in 18o8, and was named in honour of Lieut.-Colonel Jared Mansfield (1759-1830), United States surveyor of Ohio and the North-west Territory in 1803-1812, and professor of natural and experimental philosophy at West Point from 1812 to 1828. Mansfield was incorporated as a
village
  in 1828 and was first chartered as a city in 1857. It was the
home
  of John Sherman from 184o until his death.


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