Fort Wayne City and Allen County Directory, 1901

Bücher

Angebote / Angebote:

Excerpt from Fort Wayne City and Allen County Directory, 1901: Containing an Alphabetically Arranged List of Business Firms and Private Citizens in Fort Wayne, a Miscellaneous Directory of City and County Officers, Public and Private Schools, Churches, Banks, Incorporated Institutions, Secret and Benevolent SocietiesIn a broader sense than most will imagine the Directory is the history of Fort Wayne. If the historian had no other data he could write the commercial and industrial develop ment of the city.The Directory of 1901 contains names, com pared with in 1900, a gain of The method used by all Directory publishers is to multiply each name by 2 3 - 4. On account of the large number of young people in Fort Wayne employed at knitting mills, waist factories, etc., we multiply this year by 2 I which gives us a population of The United States census gives Fort Wayne a population considerably under the estimate of the Directory, nevertheless we are confident that our estimate is nearer the population of Fort Wayne to-day than is the count of the census bureau.The pages devoted to the alphabetical part of the Directory contain 731, 74 pages more than the Directory of last year. While the county directory, to which we have devoted considerable care and time, contains 67 extra pages, we not only give a list of farmers this year, but every per son -in the townships which the free rural delivery of mails embraces.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.