FARIBAULT (far'i-bo), a city of Minnesota, U.S.A., situ ated on the Cannon river, about 5om. S. of St. Paul; the county seat of Rice county. It is on Federal highway 65, and is served by the Chicago Great Western, the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific, the Minneapolis, Northfield and Southern, and the Rock Island railways. The population was I I ,oSg in 1920 (88% native white) and was in 1930, 12,767 by the Federal census. It is in a farming and dairying country, and on the eastern edge of the beautiful lake region of southern Minnesota. Its diversified manufacturing industries had an output in 1927 valued at $6,767,67o, and there are five nurseries within the city. The largest peony farm in the country is here. Faribault is the seat of the State schools for the deaf (established 1863), for the blind (1874), and for the feeble-minded (1879) ; of the Seabury Divinity school (Protestant Episcopal ; incorporated 1860) and several private academies ; and of the cathedral of Our Merciful Saviour (1868-69), the first Protestant Episcopal church in the United States built and used from the outset as a cathedral. Jean Baptiste Faribault, a French fur-trader and pioneer, made his headquarters in this region in the latter part of the 18th century. Permanent settlement dates from 1848, and the city was incor porated in 1872. A French millwright, Le Croix, introduced here, about 1860, a process of making flour which revolutionized the industry in the United States. His mill was soon destroyed by flood, and he moved to Minneapolis, where the process was adopted on a large scale. Faribault was the home for a time of Gen. James Shields (1810-79) ; and for many years of Bishop Henry Benjamin Whipple (I859-19oI), the pioneer bishop of the Protestant Episcopal church in Minnesota, famous for his missionary work among the Indians.