Gillette

Gillette
/ji let"/, n.
1. King Camp, 1855-1932, U.S. businessman: inventor of the safety razor.
2. William (Hooker), 1855-1937, U.S. actor and dramatist.
3. a town in NE Wyoming. 12,134.
4. a male given name, form of Gilbert.

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      town, seat (1911) of Campbell county, northeastern Wyoming, U.S., midway between the Black Hills (east) and the Bighorn Mountains (west). It developed after the arrival in 1891 of the Burlington and Missouri River railroads and was named for Edward Gillette, a railroad construction engineer. It is a trade centre for an area that produces grain, livestock, oil, uranium, and coal. Deer and pronghorn are hunted in the vicinity. A state university agricultural experimental station and the huge Wyodak open-pit coal mine are nearby. Inc. 1890. Pop. (1990) 17,635; (2000) 19,646.

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