CEDAR RAPIDS, a city of Linn county, Iowa, U.S.A., on the Cedar river, in the east-central part of the State. It is on Fed eral highways 3o and 161; and is served by the Chicago, Milwau kee, St. Paul and Pacific, the Chicago and North Western, the Rock Island, the Illinois Central, the Cedar Rapids and Iowa City and the Waterloo, Cedar Falls and Northern railways. The popula tion was 25,656 in 1900; 45,566 in 1920 (5,863 foreign-born white, of whom 2,833 were from Czechoslovakia) ; and 56,097 Federal census in 1930. The rapids in the river supply abundant water power, and the city ranks second in the State (1925) as a manu facturing centre, with an aggregate factory output valued at $89, 626,868. "Quaker oats" is the leading product. Others of im portance are pork and beef products, pumps, machinery for dairies and creameries, starch, lumber and patent medicines. The Rock Island Railway has large car shops here. The city has an extensive jobbing business in all staple lines, and is the distributing centre for a rich agricultural district. Bank deposits in 1926 amounted to The city has an air of substantial prosperity. Its principal streets are 8o-1 oof t. wide, well paved and shaded. The assessed valuation of property in 1927 was $20,842,698. There are five fine parks, in one of which (Frontier) an annual rodeo show is held. Three Bohemian periodicals and one Swedish, with a substantial circulation, are published here. Coe college, a co-educational Pres byterian institution, which grew out of the Cedar Rapids Collegiate Institute (185r), was chartered under its present name and opened in 1881. It has an enrolment of 1,300. At Mt. Vernon, 17m. E. by S., is Cornell college (Methodist), one of the oldest colleges west of the Mississippi, which was opened in 1853 as Iowa Con ference seminary and re-incorporated as Cornell college in Cedar Rapids was settled in 1838; incorporated in 1856; and adopted a commission form of government in 1908.