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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 594 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ULM , a See also:city and the See also:county seat of See also:Brown county, See also:Minnesota, U.S.A., on the S. See also:bank of the Minnesota See also:river, 8& m. (by See also:rail) S.W. of Minneapolis, in the See also:south central See also:part of the See also:state. Pop. (1905, state See also:census) 5720 (1287 of See also:German See also:birth); (1910) 5648. New Ulm is served by the Minneapolis & St See also:Louis, and the 'See also:Chicago & See also:North Western See also:railways. In the south-western part of the city, on a wooded See also:hill called See also:Hermann Heights, there is a statue of See also:Arminius erected by the See also:Grand See also:Lodge of Hermann's Sons of the See also:United States. New Ulm is an important livestock See also:market. The city is the seat of the Dr See also:Martin See also:Luther See also:College (Lutheran, 1884), a secondary school, with a normal and a collegiate See also:department. St See also:Michael's See also:Academy and St See also:Alexander See also:Hospital are under the See also:charge of See also:Roman See also:Catholic sisters. New Ulm was settled about 1853, and was twice attacked and almost destroyed by the See also:Indians during the See also:Sioux uprising of 1862. There is a See also:monument to those who lost their lives in the Sioux massacres.

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