APPLETON  , a

city and the county-seat of Outagamie county, Wisconsin, U.S.A., on the lower Fox river, about 90 M . N. of Milwaukee . Pop . (189o) 11,86g; (1900) 15,085, of whom 36o5 were foreign-born; (191o, census) 16,773 . It is served by the Chicago & North-Western, and the Chicago, Milwaukee & St Paul railways, and by steamboats on the Fox river, by means of which it meets lake transportation at De Pere and Green Bay . Appleton was one of the first cities in the United States to have an electric street railway line in operation; and electric street railways now traverse the entire Fox river valley as far as Fond du Lac on the south and Green Bay on the north . The city is attractively laid out on high bluffs above the river . It has several beautiful parks, two hospitals, a number of fine churches and school buildings, and a public library . The city is the seat of Lawrence college (changed from university in 1908), an interdenominational (originally a Methodist Episcopal) co-educational institution, founded in 1847 as the Lawrence Institute of Wisconsin and named in honour of Amos Adams Lawrence (1814–1886) of Boston, son of Amos Lawrence, and giver of $1o,000 for the founding of the Institute . The college comprises an academy, a college of liberal arts, a school of expression, a school of commerce, schools of music and of art, and a school of correspondence; and in 1907–1908 had 33 instructors, S75 students and a library of 24,400 volumes . The Fox river furnishes about Io,000 h.p., which is largely utilized for the manufacture of paper (of which Appleton is one of the largest producers in the United States), wood-pulp, sulphite fibre, machinery, wire screens, woollen goods, knit goods, furniture, dyes and flour . The total value of factory products in 19o5 was $6,672,457, an increase of 72.8 % over the product value of 1900 .

Appleton was first permanently settled in 1833, and was named in honour of

Samuel Appleton of Massachusetts, who owned part of the original town plot . It was incorporated as a village in 1853, and received in 1857 a city charter, which was revised in 1887 and in 1905 .