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    Does Bismark, North Dakota, have anything to do with Otto von Bismark, first chancellor of the German empire?

    Question #114610. Asked by star_gazer. (May 09 10 11:03 PM)


    serpa

    		Yes.

    ...the city that would become present-day Bismarck was founded in 1872 and given the name Edwinton, in honor of Edwin Ferry Johnson (1803–1872), a distinguished civil engineer who was engineer-in-chief for the Northern Pacific Railway from June 1866 to November 1870. In 1873 the Northern Pacific Railway changed the city's name to Bismarck, after the German chancellor Otto von Bismarck, in an effort to attract German investment.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bismarck,_North_Dakota

    May 09 10, 11:07 PM
    great2beme

    		Not sure but the Northern Pacific Railway changed the city of Edwinton to Bismarck, after von Bismarck, to try to attract German investments.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bismarck,_North_Dakota

    May 09 10, 11:07 PM
    author

    		In 1873, the settlement was renamed Bismarck in honor of the first chancellor of the German Empire. Germans had previously invested in American railroads, and it was hoped that Germany would invest in the financially ailing Northern Pacific.

    Estimated 1874 population of Bismarck was 1,200 people. Bismarck was incorporated in 1875 and began to grow as a steamboat port and, until 1879, as the western terminus of the Northern Pacific Railway. The town attracted rivermen and wood choppers, who supplied personnel and fuel needs for riverboats.

    http://www.answers.com/topic/bismarck-history

    May 10 10, 5:15 PM

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