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MENOMONIE , a city and the county-seat of Dunn county, Wisconsin, U.S.A., about 64 m . E. of StSee also: Paul, See also: Minnesota, on the Red See also: Cedar See also: river
.
Pop
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(189o), 5491; (1900), 5655, of whom 1172 were See also: foreign-See also: born; (1905), 5473; (1910), 5036
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It is served by the See also: Chicago, See also: Milwaukee & St
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Paul, and the Chicago, St Paul, Minneapolis & See also: Omaha See also: railways
.
The city is widely known for its institutions, for the most See also: part founded or supported by See also: James Huff Stout (1848–1910), a prominent
See also: local lumberman
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Among them are the Mabel Tainter Memorial Library, the Dunn County School of See also: Agriculture, the Dunn County Normal Training
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School, the Stout Institute for the training of teachers of domestic science &c., institutions in which public school See also: children receive See also: physical training
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The city has grain See also: elevators, and manufactures of bricks and tiles, foundry and machine See also: shop products, carriages and wagons and See also: flour
.
Menomonie is an important market for See also: dairy products and livestock
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Menomonie was settled about 1846 and was chartered as a city in 1882
.
The first See also: free travelling library in the See also: state was established here in 1896 by James Huff Stout
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