Geneva

Suburban town and administrative headquarters of Kane County, northeast Illinois; population (1990) 12,600. It is situated on the Fox River, 58 km/36 mi west of Chicago. Farm machinery, electronic parts, auto equipment and batteries, and foundry products are among the goods manufactured in the town. The Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory is 6 km/4 mi to the southeast. Geneva was founded in the 1830s and served as a trading centre for settlers arriving in Illinois or headed farther west.

Geneva

Small town in Adams County, northeast Indiana; population (1990) 1,300. It is located 53 km/33 mi south-southeast of Fort Wayne, near the Ohio state border, on the upper reaches of the Wabash River. It was the centre of the Limberlost region, a swampy, forested area, which was drained and lumbered in 1913. The area was celebrated in Girl of the Limberlost (1909), among other writings by Gene Stratton Porter, who lived here 1895-1913.

Geneva

Town in Ontario County, west-central New York; population (1990) 14,100. It is located at the northern end of Seneca Lake, 64 km/40 mi southeast of Rochester. The town is the market and processing centre of an agricultural region. Industries manufacture machinery, steel castings, corrugated cartons, and electronic components.

Geneva was settled in 1785 on the site of an American Indian village. Hobart College for men and William Smith College for women were founded here in 1822. Elizabeth Blackwell, the first woman doctor in the modern Western tradition, graduated from Geneva Medical College in 1849.