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Encyclopedia Britannica



OTTAWA

This article appears in Volume V20, Page 371 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: ORC-PAI
OTTAWA , a city and the county-seat of Franklin county, eastern Kansas, U.S.A., situated on the Osage (Marais des Cygnes) river, about 58 m. (by
rail
 ) S.W. of Kansas City. Pop. (1900) 6934, of whom 333 were foreign born; (1905) 7727; (1910) 767o. It is served by the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe (which has large repair shops here) and the Missouri Pacific railways. There is a
Carnegie
  library, and Forest Park, within the city limits, is a popular
meeting
  place of conventions and summer gatherings, including the annual Ottawa Chautauqua Assembly. Ottawa University (Baptist) was established here in 1865, as the outgrowth of Roger Williams University, which had been chartered in 186o for the education of Indians on the Ottawa Reservation, and had received a grant of 20,000 acres from the Federal government in 1862. The university comprises an
academy
 , a college, a school of fine arts and a commercial college, and in 1909 had 406 students. Ottawa has an important
trade
  in
grain
  and live-stock; soft coal and natural gas are found in the vicinity; the manufactures include flour, wind-mills, wire-fences, furniture, bricks,-brooms and foundry products. Ottawa was settled in 1854, and was first chartered as a city in 1866.


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