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SHEBOYGAN , a See also:city and the See also:county seat of Sheboygan county, See also:Wisconsin, U.S.A., on the W. See also:shore of See also:Lake See also:Michigan at the mouth of the Sheboygan See also:river, about 52 M. N. of See also:Milwaukee. Pop. (1910 See also:census) 26,398. The See also:population is largely of See also:German descent, and two German See also:newspapers are published; many Greeks settled here after 1895. Sheboygan is served by the See also:Chicago & See also:North-Western railway, by interurban electric lines and by a See also:steam-See also:boat See also:line (the See also:Goodrich Transportation Co.). The city N. of the river and the See also:southern See also:half of the See also:part S. of the river are built on a See also:plateau 20-40 ft. above the lake level. Along the river is the factory See also:district. The See also:principal public buildings are a See also:fine Federal See also:building in which are housed the See also:post See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office and the office of the See also:internal See also:revenue., a See also:Carnegie library, the Sheboygan County See also:Court See also:House, an See also:opera house, St See also:Nicholas See also:Hospital and a county insane See also:asylum. Included in the public school See also:system is a school for See also:deaf See also:children, partly supported by the See also:state. The city has a See also:good See also:harbour and is an important distributing point for See also:coal and See also:salt. A See also:rich agricultural region,
(See also:Man. d'ornithologie, ii. 343) ; but for all See also:practical purposes we certainly owe its See also:discovery to the naturalists of See also:Cook's second voyage. By some See also:error, probably of transcription, New See also:Zealand, instead of New-See also:Year See also:Island, appears in many See also:works as the See also:place of its discovery, while not a few writers have added thereto New See also:- HOLLAND
- HOLLAND, CHARLES (1733–1769)
- HOLLAND, COUNTY AND PROVINCE OF
- HOLLAND, HENRY FOX, 1ST BARON (1705–1774)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICH, 1ST EARL OF (1S9o-,649)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICHARD VASSALL FOX, 3RD
- HOLLAND, JOSIAH GILBERT (1819-1881)
- HOLLAND, PHILEMON (1552-1637)
- HOLLAND, RICHARD, or RICHARD DE HOLANDE (fl. 1450)
- HOLLAND, SIR HENRY, BART
Holland. Hitherto there is no real See also:evidence of the occurrence of a See also:Sheathbill in the See also:waters of See also:Australia or New Zealand.
In the See also:Falkland Isles it is called the " Kelb-See also:Pigeon," and by some of the earlier See also:French navigators the " Pigeon bland antarctique. by The cognate See also:species of Kerguelen See also:Land is named by the sealers " Sore-eyed Pigeon," from its prominent fleshy orbits, as well as " Paddy-See also:bird "—the last doubtless from its See also:- WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
white plumage calling to mind that of some of the smaller Egrets, so-called by the See also:English in See also:India and elsewhere.
2 See also:Lesson (loc. cit.) cites a brief but correct indication of this species as observed by Lesquin (Lycee armoricain, x. 36) on Crozet Island, and, not suspecting it to be distinct, was at a loss to reconcile the discrepancies of the latter's description with that given of the other species by earlier authors.devoted largely to, dairying, extends to the N., S. and W., and large quantities of See also:cheese are exported. Among the city's other manufactures are See also:furniture, particularly chairs (for which the city is noted), toys, machinery, See also:bee hives, gloves, knit goods, See also:brick, carriages, wagons, excelsior, tanned See also:leather, shoes, See also:enamel See also:ware, canned vegetables (especially peas), See also:beer, See also:flour, pianos and See also:plumbing supplies. The See also:total value of the factory product in 1go5 was $10,086,648, 38'1 % representing furniture; and 56'7% of the whole number of factory wage-earners were employed in the furniture factories. A trading post at the mouth of the Sheboygan river was established about 182o and was maintained for about fourteen years; in 1834 a saw-See also:- MILL
- MILL (O. Eng. mylen, later myln, or miln, adapted from the late Lat. molina, cf. Fr. moulin, from Lat. mola, a mill, molere, to grind; from the same root, mol, is derived " meal;" the word appears in other Teutonic languages, cf. Du. molen, Ger. muhle)
- MILL, JAMES (1773-1836)
- MILL, JOHN (c. 1645–1707)
- MILL, JOHN STUART (1806-1873)
mill was built at the first rapids of the river, about 2 M. from its mouth, and during the next three years many settlers came and a See also:great city was platted on See also:paper. Sheboygan was incorporated as a See also:village in 1846, and was first chartered as a city in 1853. Several See also:miles from Sheboygan Falls (pop. in 1905, 1411), a village about 5 M. W. of Sheboygan and S.W. of See also:Plymouth (pop. in 1905, 2764), the See also:Spring Farms Association, a Fourierite community of ten families, farmed successfully. See also:thirty acres of land from 1845 until 1848, when lack of See also:interest in the experiment brought about a See also:dissolution by mutual agreement.
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