Meadville, capital of Crawford county, Pennsylvania, on French Creek, 113 miles by rail N. of Pittsburg. It manufactures woollens, paper, glass, machinery, agricultural implements, &c., has oil-refineries and large railway-shops, and is the seat of Alleghany College (Methodist, founded 1815), and of a Unitarian theological school. Pop. (1890) 9502.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 7: Maltebrun to Pearson, p. 107
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