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MENOMONIE

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 133 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MENOMONIE , a See also:

city and the See also:county-seat of Dunn county, See also:Wisconsin, U.S.A., about 64 m. E. of St See also:Paul, See also:Minnesota, on the Red See also:Cedar See also:river. Pop. (189o), 5491; (1900), 5655, of whom 1172 were See also:foreign-See also:born; (1905), 5473; (1910), 5036. It is served by the See also:Chicago, See also:Milwaukee & St. Paul, and the Chicago, St Paul, Minneapolis & See also:Omaha See also:railways. The city is widely known for its institutions, for the most See also:part founded or supported by See also:James Huff Stout (1848–1910), a prominent See also:local lumberman. Among them are the Mabel Tainter Memorial Library, the Dunn County School of See also:Agriculture, the Dunn County Normal Training . School, the Stout See also:Institute for the training of teachers of domestic See also:science &c., institutions in which public school See also:children receive See also:physical training. The city has See also:grain See also:elevators, and manufactures of bricks and tiles, foundry and See also:machine See also:shop products, carriages and wagons and See also:flour. Menomonie is an important See also:market for See also:dairy products and livestock. Menomonie was settled about 1846 and was chartered as a city in 1882.

The first See also:

free travelling library in the See also:state was established here in 1896 by James Huff Stout.

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