, Chicago & St Louis railways, and is connected
with Indianapolis and with Louisville, Ky., by an electric interurban
line. Columbus is situated in a fine farming region, and has extensive
tanneries, threshing-machine and traction and automobile engine works,
structural iron works, tool and machine shops, canneries and furniture
factories. In 1905 the value of the city's factory product was
$2,983,160, being 28.4% more than in 1900. The water-supply system and
electric-lighting plant are owned and operated by the city.

COLUMBUS, a city and the county-seat of Lowndes county, Mississippi,
U.S.A., on the E. bank of the Tombigbee river, at the head of steam
navigation, 150. m. S.E. of Memphis, Tennessee. Pop. (1890) 4559; (1900)
6484 (3366 negroes); (1910) 8988. It is served by the Mobile & Ohio and
the Southern railways, and by passenger and freight steamboat lines. It
has cotton and knitting mills, cotton-seed oil factories, machine shops,
and wagon, stove, plough and fertilizer factories; and is a market and
jobbing centre for a fertile agricultural region. It has a public
library, and is the seat of the Mississippi Industrial Institute and
College (1885) for women, the first state college for women--the
successor of the Columbus Female Institute (1848)--of Franklin Academy
(1821), and of the Union Academy (1873) for negroes. The site was first
settled about 1818; the city was incorporated in 1821, and in 1830 it
became the county-seat of the newly formed Lowndes county. During the
Civil War the legislature met here in 1863 and 1865, and in the former
year Governor Charles Clark (1810-1877) was inaugurated here.

COLUMBUS, a city, a port of entry, the capital of Ohio, U.S.A., and the
county-seat of Franklin county, at the confluence of the Scioto and
Olentangy rivers, near the geographical centre of the state, 120 m. N.E.
of Cincinnati, and 138 m. S.S.W. of Cleveland. Pop. (1890) 88,150;
(1900) 125,560, of whom 12,328 were foreign-born and 8201 were negroes;
(1910) 181,511. Columbus is an important railway centre and is served by
the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis, the Pittsburg,
Cincinnati, Chicago & St Louis (Pennsylvania system), the Baltimore &
Ohio, the Ohio Central, the Norfolk & Western, the Hocking Valley, and
the Cleveland, Akron & Columbus (Pennsylvania system) railways, and by
nine interurban electric lines. It occupies a land area of about 17 sq.
m., the principal portion being along