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Boone (City and county-seat of Boone)

city and county-seat of Boone and other railroads; 36 miles N. N. W. of Des Moines, the State capital. It is and coal mining center, and in the an important milling, manufacturing, pottery clays. The chief industries are the manufacture of flour, brick and tile, vicinity are large deposits of fire and and pottery, and the mining and shipping of coal. Pop. (1910) 10,347; (1920) 12,- 451.

Kentucky, born in Bucks co., Pa., Feb. 11, 1735. He was a Colonel in the United