The New Student's Reference Work/Quincy, Ill.

Quin'cy, Ill., the third city in Illinois and county-seat of Adams County, is on the Mississippi, and was founded in 1822. It has steadily grown into a manufacturing city of considerable importance. Among the many manufactured articles are stoves, farm implements, incubators, metallic wheels, stationary engines, engine supplies, furniture, clothing, carriages, paving and building brick, lumber and lime. In addition to several railroad lines, the city has river transportation. The public institutions include a free library of 22,000 volumes, a fine courthouse, soldiers' and sailors' home, hospitals, churches, Federal building and many beautiful parks. The city has 13 public-school buildings with an enrollment of 5,000, 12 parochial schools with an enrollment of 2,500, two large business-colleges and several private schools. The city is noted for beautiful shade-trees, paved streets and healthful situation on a bluff above the river. Population 36,587.