The New International Encyclopædia/Trenton (Missouri)

TRENTON. The county-seat of Grundy County, Mo., 83 miles east by north of Saint Joseph; on the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific, and the Omaha, Kansas City and Eastern railroads (Map: Missouri, C 1). It is the seat of Ruskin College (non-sectarian), opened in 1900, and has the Jewett Norris Free Public Library, with 6000 volumes. Trenton is largely interested in coal-mining. The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad maintains repair and machine shops here. Under a charter of 1893 the government is vested in a mayor, elected biennially, and a unicameral council. Trenton was settled in 1840, and was first incorporated in 1857. Population, in 1890, 5039; in 1900, 5396.