MENOMONIE  , a

city and the county-seat of Dunn county, Wisconsin, U.S.A., about 64 m . E. of St Paul, Minnesota, on the Red Cedar river . Pop . (189o), 5491; (1900), 5655, of whom 1172 were foreign-born; (1905), 5473; (1910), 5036 . It is served by the Chicago, Milwaukee & St . Paul, and the Chicago, St Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha railways . The city is widely known for its institutions, for the most part founded or supported by James Huff Stout (1848–1910), a prominent local lumberman . Among them are the Mabel Tainter Memorial Library, the Dunn County School of Agriculture, the Dunn County Normal Training . School, the Stout Institute for the training of teachers of domestic science &c., institutions in which public school children receive physical training . The city has grain elevators, and manufactures of bricks and tiles, foundry and machine shop products, carriages and wagons and flour . Menomonie is an important market for dairy products and livestock . Menomonie was settled about 1846 and was chartered as a city in 1882 .

The first

free travelling library in the state was established here in 1896 by James Huff Stout .