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37859The New Student's Reference Work — Youngstown, O.

Young'stown, O., county-seat of Mahoning County, on the Mahoning River, 67 miles from Cleveland and 64 from Pittsburg. Being in a coal and iron region, it has become a very important manufacturing center, having rolling-mills, blast-furnaces, steel-plants and allied industries, producing boilers, bridges, cars, cranes, engines, forgings, machinery and steel-castings. It also manufactures automobiles, brass-castings, flour, leather and powder, and has oilcloth and rubber-plants. The buildings of most note are Dollar Savings and Trust Company, the Y. M. C. A. building, the City Hospital and Memorial Kindergarten. The city has excellent public and parochial schools, a high school (Rayen School) and several private schools. Here are McMillan Library and Rayen School Library. There are many churches representing several denominations. Population 79,066.