Jefferson City
a city, capital of the State of Missouri, and county-seat of Cole co.; on the Missouri river, the Chicago and Alton, the Missouri , Kansas and Pacific and the Missouri Pacific railroads; 125 miles W. of St. Louis. It is the farming and manufacturing trade JEFFREYS has manufactories of flour, shoes, farming implements, and wagons, and iron foundries. It has the State Capitol, St.
Mary's Hospital, Lincoln Institute, and other public buildings. It has gas and electric light plants, a National bank, daily, weekly, and monthly periodicals.
Pop. (1910) 11,850, (1920) 14,490.
JEFFERSONIA (-sō'-) (named in honor of President Jefferson), a genus of plants, order Berberidacex. The Berberidaceæ. The species J. diphylla, the twin-leaf, or rheumatism-root, is found in woods from Western New York to Wisconsin and S.
The leaves, which are only two and bipartite, rise immediately from a horizontal root-stock borne on long petals, and enfolding a handsome white flower, not unlike that of the blood-root, and appearing in April and May. This plant has in the West the reputation of being a stimulant, diaphoretic, and antispasmodic. a city and JEFFERSONVILLE, county-seat of Clark co., Ind.; on the JEFFERSONVILLE, a city and Ohio river, and the Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern, the Pittsburgh , Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis, and several other railroads; 50 miles E. of Evansville; and opposite Louisville, Ky., with which it is connected by railroad bridges. It contains the Southern State Penitentiary, State Penitentiary , High School, Public Library; is the seat of an extensive government depot of supplies; and has waterworks, gas and electric lights, street railways, large car works, National banks, daily, weekly, and monthly periodicals. Pop. (1910) 10,- . (1910) 10, - 412, (1920) 10,098. a