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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 133 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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MENOMINEE , a See also:

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

city and the 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-seat of Menominee county, See also:

Michigan, U.S.A., on See also:

Green See also:

BAY

Bay, at the mouth of the Menominee See also:

RIVER

river, opposite See also:

MARINETTE

Marinette, See also:

Wisconsin, at the southernro,5o7. It is served by the See also:

Chicago & See also:

North-Western, the Chicago, See also:

MILWAUKEE

Milwaukee & St See also:

Paul, the Wisconsin & Michigan, and the See also:

ANN

Ann Arbor See also:

RAILWAYS

railways, and is connected by five See also:

bridges with Marinette, Wisconsin. Menominee has several parks, and See also:

HARBOUR (from M.E. hereberge, here, an army; cf. Ger. Heer and -beorg, protection or shelter. Other early forms in English were herberwe and haiborow, as seen in various place names, such as Market Harborough.. The French auberge, an inn, derived through

harbour and See also:

DOCK

dock facilities for the heaviest See also:

lake vessels. It is one of the largest See also:

LUMBER

lumber centres in the See also:

UNITED

United States; it has excellent See also:

WATER

water See also:

POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power, and there are manufactures of 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, See also:

STEEL, FLORA ANNIE (1847– )

steel, See also:

electrical appliances, See also:

mill and See also:

MINING

mining machinery, shoes, See also:

BEET

beet See also:

SUGAR

sugar and See also:

paper. The use of beet-pulp instead of See also:

INDIAN

Indian See also:

corn See also:

ENSILAGE

ensilage for See also:

DAIRY

dairy cows has promoted the dairying 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 in the city. extremity of the upper See also:

peninsula. Pop. (1890), 10,030; (190o), 12,818, of whom 4186 were See also:

FOREIGN

foreign-See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born; (1910 See also:

CENSUS (from Lat. censere, to estimate or assess; connected by some with centum, i.e. a count by hundreds)

census), A trading See also:

POST

post was established here in 17991 but See also:

settlement was not begun until 1833. Menominee became the county-seat in 1874, was chartered as a city in 1883, and in 1891 and in 1901 it was re-chartered; in 1903 an See also:

AMENDMENT (through the O. Fr. amender, to correct, from Lat. mendum, a fault)

amendment to the 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 created a municipal See also:

court. The city is named after the Menominee See also:

INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN

Indians,' an Algonquian tribe formerly ranging over a consider-able territory in Wisconsin and Michigan, who seem to have been first visited by whites in 1634, when Nicolet found them at the mouth of the Menominee river, and now number about 1600, most of them being under the Green Bay school superintendency, Wisconsin. The name is the Chippewa word for See also:

WILD, JONATHAN (c. 1682-1725)

wild See also:

rice, which formed See also:

PART

part of the See also:

food of the tribe.

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