MOUNT VERNON,
A city and county-seat of Jefferson County, 
on three trunk lines of railroad, 77 miles 
east-southeast of St. Louis; is the center of a rich
agricultural and coal region; has many flourishing 
manufactories, including car-works, a plow factory, 
flouring mills, pressed brick factory, canning factory, 
and is an important shipping-point for grain, vegetables 
and fruits. The Appellate Court for the Southern Grand 
Division is held here, and the city has nine churches, 
fine school buildings, a Carnegie library, two banks, 
heating plant, two daily and three weekly papers. 
Population (1890), 3,233; (1900), 5,216