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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 411 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WATERTOWN , a See also:

city of See also:Dodge and See also:Jefferson counties, See also:Wisconsin, U.S.A., on both See also:banks of the See also:Rock See also:river, about 45 M. W.N.W. of See also:Milwaukee. Pop. (1890) 8755; (1900) 8437, including 2447 See also:foreign-See also:born; (1905, See also:state See also:census) 8623; (1910) 8829. See also:Water-See also:town is served by the See also:Chicago & See also:North-Western and the Chicago, Milwaukee & St See also:Paul See also:railways, and by an interurban electric See also:line, connecting with Milwaukee. It is the seat of North-western University (,865; Lutheran), which includes collegiate, preparatory and See also:academic departments, and had in 1908–1909 11 instructors and 283 students, and of the Sacred See also:Heart See also:College (See also:Roman See also:Catholic, opened in 1872 and chartered in 1874), under the See also:Congregation of the See also:Holy See also:Cross. There are also a See also:Carnegie library, a Lutheran See also:Home for the Feeble-Minded, and a City See also:Hospital. The Rock river furnishes water-See also:power which is utilized for manufacturing. The value of the factory product in 1905 was $2,065,487. The city is situated in a dairying and farming region. The See also:municipality owns and operates its water-See also:works. Watertown was founded about 1836 by settlers who gave it the name of their former home, Watertown, New See also:York.

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great influx of Germans, particularly after the Revolution of 1848, among them being Carl See also:Schurz, who began the practice of See also:law here. Germans by See also:birth or descent still constitute a See also:majority of the See also:population. Watertown was incorporated as a See also:village in 1849, and was chartered as a city in 1853.

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