DUBOIS, a city of Clearfield county, Pa., U.S.A., on Sandy Lick creek, 85m. N.E. of Pittsburgh. It is on Federal highways 119, 219 and 322, and is served by the Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburgh, the Buffalo and Susquehanna and the Pennsylvania railways. The population in 192o was 13,681; 193o it was The city is built on a small plateau surrounded by hills, on the western slope of the Allegheny mountains, nearly 1,400ft. above sea-level. It is an important coal and lumber centre, and has various manufacturing industries, including large coal-car shops, foundry and machine shops, flour and lumber mills, wood-working plants, tanneries, silk mills and a glass factory, with aggregate out put in 1927 valued at $3,508,670. The city was founded in 1872 by John Dubois, and was incorporated in 1881.