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MARSHFIELD , a See also:

CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city of See also:

Wood See also:

COUNTY (through Norm. Fr. comae, cf. O. Fr. cunte, conk', Mod. Fr. comae, from Lat. comitatus, cf. Ital. comitato, Prov. comtat; see COUNT)

county, See also:

Wisconsin, about 165 m. N.W. of See also:

MILWAUKEE

Milwaukee. Pop. (189o), 3450; (1900), 5240, of whom 1161 were See also:

FOREIGN

foreign-See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born; (1905) 6036; (1910) 5783. It is served by the See also:

Chicago & See also:

North-Western, the Chicago, St See also:

Paul, Minneapolis & See also:

OMAHA

Omaha, and the Minneapolis, St Paul & Sault Ste See also:

MARIE

Marie See also:

RAILWAYS

railways. It contains the See also:

MOTHER

mother-See also:

house of the Sisters of the Sorrowful Mother. Lumbering is the most important See also:

INDUSTRY (Lat. industria, from indu-, a form of the pre, position in, and either stare, to stand, or struere, to pile up)

industry, and there are various manufactures. The city is situated in a See also:

CLOVER

clover region, in which dairying is important, and See also:

GUERNSEY (Fr. Guernesey)

Guernsey and See also:

Holstein-See also:

FRIESLAND, or VRIESLAND

Friesland See also:

CATTLE (Norman Fr. catel, from Late Lat. capitale, wealth or property, a word applied in the feudal system to movable property and particularly to live stock, and surviving in its wider meaning as " chattel " or " chattle ")

cattle are raised. The See also:

MUNICIPALITY

municipality owns and operates the waterworks and the electric-See also:

LIGHTING

lighting plant. The site of Marshfield was See also:

PART

part of a See also:

TRACT (from Lat. tractare, to treat of a matter, through Provencal tractat and Ital. trattato)

tract granted by the Federal See also:

government to the See also:

Fox See also:

RIVER

River Improvement See also:

COMPANY

Company, organized to construct a waterway between the See also:

MISSISSIPPI

Mississippi river and See also:

Green See also:

BAY

Bay, and among the See also:

ORIGINAL

original owners of the See also:

TOWN

town site were See also:

SAMUEL

Samuel See also:

Marsh of See also:

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

Massachusetts (in whose 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 the See also:

PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place was named) and Horatio See also:

Seymour, See also:

Ezra Cornell, See also:

ERASTUS, THOMAS (1524-1583)

Erastus See also:

Corning, and See also:

William A. See also:

Butler of New See also:

York. Marshfield was settled about 187o, and was first chartered as a city in 1883.

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