The New Student's Reference Work/Wabash, Ind.

Wabash (wa̤′ băsh), Ind., a city, the seat of Wabash County, on Wabash River, and on the Wabash and the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad, 40 miles southwest of Fort Wayne.  Settled in 1837, it was incorporated the same year, and had its charter as a city in 1865.  Among its public institutions are the Memorial Hall, Masonic Temple, a Woman’s Orphan Home, besides municipal and school buildings, churches, a library and a county hospital.  Besides the railroad shops of the “Big Four” road, its industries include church and school furniture, cabinets, bridge and iron works, manufactures of hats, cash-registers, paper and paper boxes, shafting, harness, carts, sleds and wagons.  Population 8,687.