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MANITOWOC (Indian, " Spirit-land")

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 586 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MANITOWOC (See also:Indian, " Spirit-See also:land")  , a See also:city and the See also:county-seat of See also:Manitowoc county, See also:Wisconsin, on the W. See also:shore of See also:Lake See also:Michigan, 75 M . N. of See also:Milwaukee . Pop . (1890), 7710; (1900), 11,786, of whom 2998 were See also:foreign-See also:born; (1910 See also:census), 13,027 . It is served by the See also:Chicago & See also:North-Western, and the Wisconsin Central See also:railways; by See also:ferry across the lake to See also:Frankfort, Mich., and See also:Ludington, Mich.; by the See also:Ann Arbor and the Pere See also:Marquette railways; and by the See also:Goodrich See also:line of lake steamers . The city is finely situated on high ground above the lake at the mouth of the Manitowoc See also:river . At Manitowoc are the county insane See also:asylum and a See also:Polish See also:orphan asylum . The city has a training school for county teachers, a business See also:college, two hospitals and a See also:Carnegie library . There are See also:ship-yards for the construction of both See also:steel and wooden vessels, and several See also:grain See also:elevators . The value of the factory products increased from $1,935,442 in 190o to $4,427,816 in 1905, or 128.8 per cent.—a greater increase than that of any other city in the See also:state during this See also:period . There is a See also:good See also:harbour, and the city has a considerable lake See also:commerce in grain, See also:flour, and See also:dairy products . Jacques Vieau established here a See also:post for the North-See also:west See also:Company of See also:fur traders in 1795 .

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settlement was made about 1836, and Manitowoc was chartered as a city in 1870 . In Manitowoc county, r8 m. See also:south-west of the city of Manitowoc, is St Nazianz, an unorganized See also:village near which in 1854 a See also:colony or community of See also:German See also:Roman Catholics was established under the leadership of See also:Father See also:Ambrose See also:Oswald, the See also:primary See also:object being to enable poor See also:people by See also:combination and co-operation to See also:supply themselves with the comforts of See also:life at minimum expense and have as much See also:time as possible See also:left for religious thought and See also:worship . The See also:title of the colony's See also:land was vested in Father Oswald after the panic of 1857 until his See also:death in 1874, when he devised the lands to " the colony founded by me." The colony had no legal existence at the time, but was then incorporated as the " Roman See also:Catholic Religious Society of St Nazianz," and as such sued successfully for the See also:bequest . Financially the colony was successful, but as there were some desertions and no new recruits after Father Oswald's death, there were few members by 1909 . There are no longer any traces of See also:communism, and the colony's See also:property is actually held by an organization of the See also:local Roman Catholic See also:church .

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