LAWRENCE, a city of eastern Kansas, U.S.A., on the Kansas (Kaw)
river, 4o m. W. of Kansas City; county seat of Douglas county
and the seat of the State university. It is on Federal highways
4o and 73W, and is served by the Rock Island, the Santa Fe and
the Union Pacific railways. The population in 1930 (Federal
census) was 13,726. From the plateau bordering the river the
city slopes up to heights which command a fine view. In the
south-western part of the city, on the ridge called Mt. Oread,
is the University of Kan sas (q.v.), which has an enrolment of
5,000. Haskell Institute (est. 1884), a boarding school for
Indians conducted by the Fed eral Government, with an attendance
of about i,000, is in the southern part of the city. Lawrence is
the commercial centre of a rich farming country, and has
manufactures of importance. Lawrence was founded in 1854 by the
New England Emigrant Aid Society, and was named after Amos A.
Lawrence of Boston, a prominent member of the society. The first
colonists were ardent abol