St. Joseph, a city of Missouri, on the Missouri River (here spanned by a fine bridge), 110 m. above Kansas City, is an important railway centre; as capital of Buchanan County it possesses a number of State buildings and Roman Catholic colleges; does a large trade in pork-packing, iron goods, &c.
Population (circa 1900) given as 103,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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