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WAUSAU , a See also:city and the See also:county-seat of See also:Marathon county, See also:Wisconsin, U.S.A., on both See also:banks of the Wisconsin See also:river, about 185 M. N.W. of See also:Milwaukee. Pop. (i89o) 9253; (1900) 12,354, of whom 3747 were See also:foreign-See also:born; (1910 See also:census) 16,56o. There is a large See also:German See also:element in the See also:population, and two German semi-weekly See also:newspapers are published here. Wausau is served by the See also:Chicago, Milwaukee & St See also:Paul and the Chicago & See also:North-Western See also:railways. The city is built for the most See also:part on a level See also:plateau above the river and extends to the See also:top of high bluffs on either See also:side. It has a See also:fine city See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
hall, a See also:Carnegie library, the Marathon County See also:Court See also:House, a See also:hospital, built by the Sisters of the Divine Saviour, and a Federal See also:Building. In Wausau are a U.S. See also:land 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, the Marathon County Training School for Teachers, the Marathon County School of See also:Agriculture and Domestic See also:Science, and a County See also:Asylum for the Chronic Insane. Valuable See also:water-See also:power furnished by the Big See also:Bull Falls of the Wisconsin (in the city) is utilized for manufacturing, and in 1910 water-power sites were being See also:developed on the Wisconsin river immediately above and below the city. In 1905 the factory products were valued at $4,644,457. Wausau had its origin in a logging-See also:camp, established about 1838. In 1840 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 here, and in 1858 the See also:village was incorporated under its See also:present name. After ,88o, when Wausau was chartered as a city, its growth was rapid.
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