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Aurora, New York
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
or A village of Cayuga county, New York, U.S.A., on Cayuga Lake, 16 m. S. W. of Auburn. Pop. (1905, state census), 623. It is served by the Lehigh Valley railway. Aurora is a beautiful place and a popular summer resort, but it is best known as the seat of Wells College, a non-sectarian college for women, founded in 1868 by Henry Wells (1805-1878), of the Wells Fargo Express Company, and liberally endowed by Edwin B. Morgan (1806-1881), also connected with the same company, and by others. At Aurora are also the Somes school (a preparatory school for boys), founded in 1798 and until 1904 known as the Cayuga Lake Academy, and the Wells school (a preparatory school for girls). The village has a public library. Aurora was settled in 1789 chiefly by residents of New England, and was incorporated in 1905.
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Aurora, New York'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/a/aurora-new-york.html. 1910.
