YPSILANTI

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YPSILANTI , a

city

CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

of Washtenaw county, Michigan, U.S.A., on the

Huron

HURON
HURON (a
French
- FRENCH
- CHESTER
  - CHESTER
  - CHESTER, EARLS OF
  _1850_.html">FRENCH, DANIEL
  CHESTER
  - CHESTER
  - CHESTER, EARLS OF
  (1850– )
- FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)
term, from huge', bristled, early used as an expression of contempt, signifying "lout ")

river, 30 M. W. by S. of

Detroit

DETROIT

. Pop. (1900) 7378; ;1904) 7587; (1910) 6230. It is served by the Michigan Central and the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern

railways

RAILWAYS

, and is the seat of the Michigan State Normal

College

COLLEGE (Collegium)

(1849). There are various manufactures. Ypsilanti was laid out and named in

honour

HONOUR (Lat. honos or lwnor, honoris; in English the word was spelled with or without the u indifferently until the 17th century, but during the 18th century it became fashion-able to spell the word " honor "; Johnson's and Webster's Dictionaries stereoty

of Demetrius Ypsilanti, the

Greek

GREEK
GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

patriot, in 1825; it was incorporated as a

village

VILLAGE

in 1832, and chartered as a

city

CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

in 1858.

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