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MARSHFIELD
, a See also:city of See also:Wood See also:county, See also:Wisconsin, about 165 m
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N.W. of See also:Milwaukee
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Pop
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(189o), 3450; (1900), 5240, of whom 1161 were See also:foreign-See also:born; (1905) 6036; (1910) 5783
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It is served by the See also:Chicago & See also:North-Western, the Chicago, St See also:Paul, Minneapolis & See also:Omaha, and the Minneapolis, St Paul & Sault Ste See also:Marie See also:railways
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It contains the See also:mother-See also:house of the Sisters of the Sorrowful Mother
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Lumbering is the most important See also:industry, and there are various manufactures
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The city is situated in a See also:clover region, in which dairying is important, and See also:Guernsey and See also:Holstein-See also:Friesland See also:cattle are raised
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The See also:municipality owns and operates the waterworks and the electric-See also:lighting plant
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The site of Marshfield was See also:part of a See also:tract granted by the Federal See also:government to the See also:Fox See also:River Improvement See also:Company, organized to construct a waterway between the See also:Mississippi river and See also:Green See also:Bay, and among the See also:original owners of the See also:town site were See also:Samuel See also:Marsh of See also:Massachusetts (in whose See also:honour the See also:place was named) and Horatio See also:Seymour, See also:Ezra Cornell, See also:Erastus See also:Corning, and See also:
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