NEW'BURYPORT. A city, including sev eral villages, a port of entry, and one of the county-seats of Essex County, Mass., 37 miles northeast of Boston; I n) the Merrinme 1iivvr and on the Boston and Maine Railroad (Slap: Massa chusetts, F 2). Among the city's noteworthy buildings' and objects of interest arc the public library of 40,000 volumes, Marine Museum, Put nam Free School, Anna Jaques Hospital, Old Ladies' Home, ]Tome for Destitute Children, 111e Old South Church, containimr the remains of George Whitefield, the house in which William Lloyd Garrison was born, the Dexter House, a statue of Washington, Washington Park, and a chain Suspension hridge. The harbor. opening into the Atlantic Ocean, is safe and spacious. The principal manufactured produets include boots and shoes„ cotton cloths, celluloid collars and cuffs, silverware, eleetrie car works. ma chinery. hats, and eoliths; and there is some shiphuilding, formerly a very and important industry. Newburyport is also a dis
tributing centre for coal. Under the original charter of incorporation of 1851, the government is adniinistered by a mayor, annually elected, and a bicameral council, of which the Upper House is elected on a general ticket and the Lower by wards. The municipality OW11,-, and operates the water-works. Population, in 1890, 13,947; in 1900. 14.478.
New•buryport was settled about 1633, was a part of Newbury until 1764. when it was sepa rately established and incorporated as a town, and was chartered as a city in 1851. It was the home of Theophilus Parsons and the birthplace Francis C. Lowell, who introduced cotton manufaeturing nn a large scale into the United States. Consult: Smith, History of Netrbary roil, Mass. (Boston, 18541: and Hurd, ilislory of Essex County, Moss. (Philadelphia. 188s).