CONNAUGHT 



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CONNECTICUT 



From 1886 to 1890 the Duke was in active 

 command of the Bombay army in India, and 

 then for eight years was in England as com- 

 mander of the 

 southern district 

 ami later of the 

 Alderahot district. 

 He succeeded 

 I.onl Roberts in 

 1900 as com- 

 mander -in -chief 

 of the forces in 

 Ireland. Four 

 years later, when 

 the war office was 

 reorganized, the 

 Duke was ap- 

 pointed to the 

 newly-created of- DUKE OF CONNAUGHT 



fice of inspector- Governor-General of Can- 

 , . ., ada from 1911 to 1916, and 



general of the uncle O f King George v of 

 forces, which he England. 

 held until 1909, when he became commander-in- 

 chief in the Mediterranean, with headquarters 

 at Malta. On October 13, 1911, he became 

 Governor-General of Canada and for five years 

 fulfilled the duties of that exacting office with 

 great skill and was one of the most popular 

 Governors-General Canada has ever known. 

 His last public duty in Canada was to lay the 

 corner-stone of the new Parliament Buildings at 

 Ottawa; the corner-stone of the old structure 

 (destroyed by fire in 1916) was laid by his 

 brother Edward, later King Edward VII, about 

 fifty years earlier. 



In 1914 it was announced that Prince Alex- 

 ander of Teck would succeed him as Governor- 

 General, but owing to the outbreak of the 



War of the Nations the change was postponed. 

 Finally, in 1916, the Duke of Devonshire was 

 appointed his successor. G.H.L. 



CONNEAUT, koncawt' , 0., on Lake Erie, in 

 Ashtabula County, two miles west of the 

 Pennsylvania state line. Cleveland is sixty- 

 seven miles southwest, and Buffalo is 120 miles 

 northeast. It is on the New York Central and 

 the New York, Chicago & Saint Louis rail- 

 roads. Car ferries ply between the city and 

 Rondeau and Port Stanley, Canada, across the 

 lake. The area is about two and a half square 

 miles. The population in 1910 was 8,319; in 

 1914 it was 8,824. 



The city is situated along Conneaut Creek, 

 at whose mouth stands a lighthouse. The fine 

 harbor is entered by the largest vessels, and 

 freighting is extensive. Iron ore is shipped here 

 in great quantities from the Duluth field; 

 there are also large cargoes of the produce of 

 the surrounding grain-growing and dairying 

 country and locally manufactured products. 

 Railroad shops, planing and flour mills, manu- 

 factories of leather, electric and gas fixtures and 

 lamps, nickel and tin-plate works and foundries 

 represent the principal industries. 



The city has a splendid park of forty acres 

 along the lake. Among the important build- 

 ings are a Carnegie Library, three hospitals and 

 two banks. 



The first white settlers in Northern Ohio 

 located on the site of Conneaut. In 1796 sur- 

 veyors for the Connecticut Land Company 

 built a log storehouse here, but the permanent 

 settlement was made two years later, and took 

 the Indian name of Conneaut. The town was 

 incorporated in 1832, and received a city char- 

 ter in 1898. c.w.8. 



ONNECTICUT, Icon net' i kut, the 

 third smallest state in the American Union, 

 leads all the others in the manufacture of 

 brass, clocks and silver-plate. It is also notable 

 for many other important industries and as the 

 home of a large number of insurance com- 

 panies. Connecticut was one of the original 



thirteen states. The chief industry of its early 

 colonists was agriculture, but necessity called 

 forth inventive genius, which passed down the 

 generations, and now more patents are issued 

 to the inventors of the state, in proportion to 

 population, than to those of any other Amer- 

 ican commonwealth. And the gross value of its 



