The New Student's Reference Work/Appleton, Wis.

Appleton, Wis., a city, the capital of Outagamie County, Wisconsin, on the Fox River, about midway between Oshkosh and Green Bay. The town receives its water-power from the falls here on the Fox River, and utilizes this in the chief factories and industries, such as in pulp-making, paper making, the manufacture of pulp-mill machinery, furniture and woolen goods. Other industries are flour and wind mills, wire works and cement building-blocks. The town has a water outlet by river into Green Bay and Lake Michigan, as well as by rail, 120 miles southeast to Milwaukee and other points. It is the seat of Lawrence University and of Appleton Collegiate Institute, has two fine libraries, one public and the other in Lawrence University; also a fine hospital in charge of the Catholic sisters. Population, 16,773.