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 | | Coffeyville is served by the Missouri Pacific, the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe, the Missouri, Kansas and Texas, and the Saint Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern railways, and by inter-, urban electric railway to Independence. |
 | | It is in the Kansas natural-gas field, ships large quantities of grain, and has a large zinc oxide smelter and a large oil refinery, and various manufactures, including vitrified brick and tile, flour, lumber, chemicals, window glass, bottles, pottery and straw boards. |
 | | Coffeyville, named in honor of A. Coffey, who was a member of the first legislature of the territory of Kansas, was founded in 1869, but in 1871 it was removed about I m. |
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