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south and Green Bay on the north. The city is attractively laid out on high bluffs above the river. It has several beautiful parks, two hospitals, a number of See also:

FINE

fine churches and school buildings, and a public library. The city is the seat of See also:

Lawrence See also:

COLLEGE (Collegium)

college (changed from university in 1908), an interdenominational (originally a Methodist Episcopal) co-educational institution, founded in 1847 as the Lawrence See also:

INSTITUTE (from Lat. instituere, to establish or set up)

Institute of Wisconsin and named in See also:

HONOUR (Lat. honos or lwnor, honoris; in English the word was spelled with or without the u indifferently until the 17th century, but during the 18th century it became fashion-able to spell the word " honor "; Johnson's and Webster's Dictionaries stereoty

honour of See also:

Amos See also:

Adams Lawrence (1814–1886) of See also:

Boston, son of Amos Lawrence, and giver of $1o,000 for the See also:

FOUNDING (from Lat. fundere, to pour)

founding of the Institute. The college comprises an See also:

academy, a college of liberal arts, a school of expression, a school of See also:

commerce, See also:

SCHOOLS

schools of See also:

MUSIC

music and of See also:

art, and a school of See also:

correspondence; and in 1907–1908 had 33 instructors, S75 students and a library of 24,400 volumes. The Fox river furnishes about Io,000 h.p., which is largely utilized for the manufacture of See also:

paper (of which Appleton is one of the largest producers in the United States), See also:

wood-pulp, sulphite fibre, machinery, See also:

WIRE (A.S. wir, a wire; cf. Swed. vire, to twist, M.H.G. wiere, a gold ornament, Lat. viriae, armlets, ultimately from the root wi, to twist, bind)

wire screens, woollen goods, knit goods, See also:

FURNITURE (from " furnish," Fr. fournir)

furniture, dyes and See also:

FLOUR

flour. The See also:

TOTAL

total value of factory products in 19o5 was $6,672,457, an increase of 72.8 % over the product value of 1900.

Appleton was first permanently settled in 1833, and was named in honour of See also:

SAMUEL

Samuel Appleton of See also:

MASSACHUSETTS (an Indian name, originally applied to a tribe of Indians)

Massachusetts, who owned See also:

PART

part of the See also:

ORIGINAL

original See also:

TOWN

town See also:

plot. It was incorporated as a See also:

VILLAGE

village in 1853, and received in 1857 a city See also:

CHARTER (Lat. charta, carta, from Gr. Xap-rns, originally for papyrus, material for writing, thence transferred to paper and from this material to the document, in O. Eng. boc, book)

charter, which was revised in 1887 and in 1905.

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