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Marion (City and county-seat of Grant)

a city and county-seat of Grant co., Ind., on the Mississinewa river and on the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis, the Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis, the Toledo, St. Louis and Western and the Chesapeake and Ohio railroads, 68 miles N. E. of Indianapolis. There are a normal college, a National Home for Disabled Veteran Soldiers, a public library, waterworks, National banks, street railroad and electric light plants, and daily and weekly newspapers. It has rolling and malleable iron mills, manufactories of glass, etc. Pop. (1910) 19,359; (1920) 23,747.

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