PLATTSMOUTH

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PLATTSMOUTH , a city and the county-seat of Cass county, Nebraska, U.S.A., situated in the valley and on the bluffs of the Missouri river near the mouth of the Platte. Pop. (1900), 4964 (979

foreign

FOREIGN

born

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

); (1910) 4287. It is served by the Chicago, Burlington &

Quincy

QUINCY
QUINCY, JOSIAH (1744–1775)

, and the Missouri Pacific railway systems. There are railway car-shops, and a considerable

trade

is done in

grain

GRAIN (derived through the
French
from Lat. granum, seed, from an Aryan root meaning " to wear down," which also appears in the common Teutonic word " corn ")

and

cattle

CATTLE (Norman Fr. catel, from Late Lat. capitale, wealth or property, a word applied in the feudal system to movable property and particularly to live stock, and surviving in its wider meaning as " chattel " or " chattle ")

. A trading-

post

POST

licensed by the United States government was opened here in 1853, and a town platted in 18J4. Plattsmouth was first incorporated as a city in 1855, being one of the oldest settlements and cities of the state.

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