KENOSHA  , a

city and the county-seat of Kenosha county, Wisconsin . U.S.A., on the S.W. shore of Lake Michigan, 35 m . S. of Milwaukee and 5o m . N. of Chicago . Pop . (1900), 11,606, of whom 3333 were foreign-born; (1910), 21,371 . It is served by the Chicago & North-Western railway, by inter-urban electric lines connecting with Chicago and Milwaukee, and by freight and passenger steamship lines on Lake Michigan . It has a good harbour and a considerable lake commerce . The city is finely situated on high bluffs above the lake, and is widely known for its healthiness . At Kenosha is the Gilbert M . Simmons library, with 19,300 volumes in 1908 . Just south of the city is Kemper Hall, a Protestant Episcopal school for girls, under the charge of the Sisters of St Mary, opened in 1870 as a memorial to Jackson Kemper (1789-1870), the first missionary bishop (1835-1859), and the first bishop of Wisconsin (1854–187o) of the Protestant Episcopal Church .

Among Kenosha's manufactures are

brass and iron beds (the Simmons Manufacturing Co.), mattresses, typewriters, leather and brass goods, wagons, and automobiles—the " Rambler " automobile being made at Kenosha by Thomas B . Jeffery and Co . There is an extensive sole-leather tannery . The total value of the factory product in 1905 was $12,362,600, the city ranking third in product value among the cities of the state . Kenosha, originally known as Southport, was settled about 1832, organized as the village of Southport in 1842, and chartered in 185o as a city under its present name .