JANESVILLE, a city of southern Wisconsin, U.S.A., on the Rock river, i3mi. from the Illinois state line; the county seat of Rock county. It is on Federal highway 51, and is served by the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific and the Chicago and North Western railways, and by interurban motor bus and trolley car lines. The population was 18,293 in 1920 (88% native white) and was 21,628 by the Federal census of 193o. The city is pictur esquely situated on bluffs above the river, which furnishes abun dant water-power. It has a large trade in tobacco and grain, and important manufactures, including automobiles, auto bodies and fountain pens. The aggregate output of the factories in 1925 was
valued at $48,093,105. The State school for the blind, opened here in 1849 as a private institution, and taken over by the State in 185o, is Wisconsin's oldest State charitable institution. Janes ville was founded about 1834 and was chartered as a city in 1853, and named after Henry F. Janes, an early settler. Its daily paper, the Gazette, was established in