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KIRKSVILLE

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 833 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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KIRKSVILLE , a See also:

city and the See also:county-seat of See also:Adair county, See also:Missouri, U.S.A.,about 129 M. N ..by W. of See also:Jefferson City. Pop. (1900), 5966, including 112 See also:foreign-See also:born and 291 negroes; (1910), 6347. It is served by the See also:Wabash and the See also:Quincy, See also:Omaha & See also:Kansas City See also:railways. It lies on a See also:rolling See also:prairie at an See also:elevation of 975 ft. above the See also:sea. It is the seat of the First See also:District Missouri See also:State Normal School (1870); of the See also:American School of Osteopathy (opened 1892); and of the related A. T. Still Infirmary (incorporated 1895), named in See also:honour of its founder, See also:Andrew See also:Taylor Still (b. 182o), the originator of osteopathic treatment, who settled here in 1875. In 1908 the School of Osteopathy had 18 instructors and 398 students. See also:Grain and See also:fruit are grown in large quantities, and much See also:coal is See also:mined in the vicinity of Kirksville.

Its manufactures are shoes, bricks, See also:

lumber, See also:ice, agricultural implements, wagons and handles. Kirksville was laid out in 1842, and was named in honour of See also:Jesse See also:Kirk. It was incorporated as a See also:town in 1857 and chartered as a city of the third class in 1892. In See also:April 1899 a See also:cyclone caused serious damage to the city.

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