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ATCHISON, a city and the county-seat of Atchison county. Kansas, U.S.A., on the west bank of the Missouri river, which is navigable at this point but is utilized comparatively little for commerce. Pop. (1800) 13,963; (1900) 15,722, of whom 2308 were of negro d ...

ATKINSON, EDWARD (1827-1905), American economist, was born at Brookline, Massachusetts, on the icth of February 1827. For many years he was engaged in managing various business enterprises, and became, in 1877, president of the Boston Manufacturers' Mutual Fir

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... foreign-born and 663 were negroes; (1910 U.S. census) 9058. It is served by the Atchison, Topeka & Santa F6, and the Missouri, Kansas & Texas railways. The city has a Carnegie library, and is the seat of the state normal school and of the College of Emporia (P ...

... ro descent); (1010) 13,799. Enid is served by the St Louis & San Francisco, the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, and the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific railways, and by several branch lines, and is an important railway centre. It is the seat of the Oklahoma Christ ...

... rn California to San Francisco by 1883. In 1883 also the lines which became the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, extending from the lower Missouri valley, with St Louis and Kansas City as important terminals, through south-eastern Colorado, northern Arizona and Ne ...