SPRINGFIELD 



5511 



SPROULE 



College and several private schools. The lead- 

 ing hospitals include Wesson Memorial, Mercy, 

 Springfield and the state hospitals. Manufac- 

 turing is the leading industry, and among the 

 principal articles are firearms, railroad cars and 

 supplies, confectionery, cutlery, electrical ma- 

 chinery, apparatus and supplies, foundry and 

 machine shop products, and meat packing 

 products. Webster's International Dictionary 

 is published in Springfield. 



William Pynchon led a party of emigrants 

 from Roxbury, who settled here in 1636. The 

 place was known as Agawam, after the Agawam 

 Indians, until 1640, when it was named in honor 

 of the English home of Pynchon. The settle- 

 ment was burned by Indians during King 

 Philip's War, and was the center of disturbance 

 during Shays' Rebellion (which see). Spring- 

 field became a city in 1852. M.W. 



Consult Barrows' History of Springfield for 

 the Young; Tower's Springfield., Past and Pro- 

 spective. 



SPRINGFIELD, Mo., the county seat of 

 Greene County, is in the southwestern part of 

 the state, 200 miles southeast of Kansas City 

 and 238 miles southwest of Saint Louis, on the 

 Saint Louis & San Francisco and the Saint 

 Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern railroads. 

 The population, which was 35,201 in 1910, had 

 increased to 40,341 in 1916 (Federal estimate). 

 The area is about eight square miles. Spring- 

 field is attractively situated upon a plateau in 

 the heart of the Ozark Mountains, at an alti- 

 tude of 1,440 feet. It contains a state normal 

 school and Drury College (Congregational), 

 and its prominent buildings include a city hall 

 and courthouse, erected at a cost of $250,000, 

 a Federal building, a convention hall and a 

 Carnegie Library. 



The city has Phelps Grove, Walnut Grove, 

 Washington and other parks, and in the vi- 

 cinity are many places of scenic interest. The 

 leading industrial plants include railroad shops, 

 flour and lumber mills, wagon factories, ma- 

 chine shops and iron works. In this locality 

 are productive lead and zinc mines. The city 

 is an important poultry market, with annual 

 shipments in this line amounting to approxi- 

 mately $8,624,000. Springfield was settled about 

 1819 and was incorporated as a city in 1855. The 

 commission form of government was adopted 

 in 1916. C.W.R. 



SPRINGFIELD, OHIO, the county seat of 

 Clark County, situated in the southwest part 

 of the state, forty-five miles west of Columbus, 

 the state capital. It is at the junction of La- 



gonda Creek and Mad River, and is served by 

 the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & Saint 

 Louis, the Detroit, Toledo & Ironton, the Erie, 

 and the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago & Saint 

 Louis railroads ; it also has an extensive system 

 of interurban lines. In 1910 the population was 

 46,921; in 1916 it was 51,550 (Federal estimate). 

 The area exceeds eleven square miles. 



Springfield is the seat of Wittenberg College 

 (Lutheran), Springfield Seminary and of many 

 private schools. The city's more prominent 

 features are a Federal building, erected in 1890 

 at a cost of $150,000, a handsome county court- 

 house and county office building, which to- 

 gether cost $200,000, a city hall, built at a cost 

 of $250,000, and containing the city market 

 and auditorium, Warder Public Library, Y. M. 

 C. A. building, the state fraternal homes of the 

 Masons, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows 

 and the Knights of Pythias, and the Lagonda 

 Club. The railroad stations are worthy of note, 

 as are also a number of fine churches. In front 

 of the city hall are the Kelly fountain and 

 esplanade. Snyder Park, the largest of the 

 city's playgrounds, contains 217 acres, beauti- 

 fied by landscape gardening ; over the entrance 

 is a memorial arch, erected by citizens to the 

 memory of the donors of the park. The city 

 hospital is finely equipped. 



Power for manufacture is supplied by La- 

 gonda Creek and Mad River, and in the vi- 

 cinity natural gas is found. The leading prod- 

 ucts are various kinds of harvesting machinery 

 and other- agricultural implements, structural 

 iron, windmills, engines, electric motors, under- 

 takers' supplies and gristmill products. 



SPRING HILL, a town in Cumberland 

 County, Nova Scotia, in the northwest part of 

 the province. It is on the Cumberland Rail- 

 way & Coal Company's line, twenty-seven miles 

 north of Parrsboro and five miles south of 

 Spring Hill Junction, where connection is made 

 with the Intercolonial. Spring Hill Junction is 

 seventeen miles south of Amherst and sixty 

 miles northwest of Truro. The town of Spring 

 Hill is the distributing center of a coal-mining 

 district, and itself has several small mines. 

 Population in 1911, 5,713. 



SPROULE, sproul, THOMAS SIMPSON (1843- 

 ), a Canadian physician and statesman, 

 for more than a quarter of a century a Con- 

 servative member of the Dominion House of 

 Commons. Sproule is also one of the leaders 

 of the Orangemen; he was grand master of the 

 Loyal Orange Association of British North 

 America from 1901 to 1911, and in the latter 



