Fort Wayne, capital of Allen county, Indiana, at the confluence of the St Joseph and St Mary's rivers, which form the Maumee, and on the Wabash and Erie Canal, 148 miles ESE. of Chicago. It is an important railway centre, and has several railway workshops, foundries, and manufactures of organs, woollens, and engines. It is the seat of a Catholic bishop, and contains a Catholic hospital, convent, and academies, besides Methodist (1846) and Lutheran (1850) colleges. Pop. (1870) 17,718; (1880) 26,880; (1890) 35,392.
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