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Myra, a discontinued postoffice in Washington county.
Namekagon [also, Namakagan, Namakagon] .- See Springbrook.
Namekagon River rises in Namekagon lake, Bayfield county, flows southwest across the northwest corner of Sawyer county, southwest and northwest across Washburn county into Burnett, where it joins the St. Croix river.
Namur, a postoffice in Door county, on the Big Red river, 18 miles southwest of Sturgeon Bay, the county seat.
Nashotah, a post village of 200 inhabitants in Wankesha county, and a station of the C., M. & St. Ry., 14 miles northwest of Wau- kesha, the county seat.
Nashville, a post town of 250 people in Forest county, on the C. & N. W. Ry., Crandon, the county seat, Leing 10 miles distant.
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National Guard .- The National Guard of Wisconsin was re-or- ganized under the law of 1899, following the Spanish-American war. It is under the direct command of the adjutant general, who is appointed by the governor and who is chief of staff of the com- mander-in-chief (the governor). The guard at present consists of three regiments of infantry, the tenth special battalion of in- fantry ; Troop A, First Cavalry ; First Battalion, field artillery, num- bering with the general staff, medical department, field and staff officers, non-commissioned staff and musicians in all 2,803 men and officers. The guard is maintained at a high standard of efficiency and each regiment and organization has a week each of special drill and camp life at the state encampment grounds, Camp Douglas, where it is inspected by regular army officers specially detailed for that purpose.
National Home, substation of the Milwaukee postoffice, and a station on the C., M. & St. P. Ry., 2 miles west of Milwaukee. It is the home for disabled volunteers of the civil war.
Naugart, a post village of Marathon county, on the Little Rib river, 15 miles northwest of Wausau, the county seat. It has a population o: 300.
Navan, a discontinued postoffice in Jefferson county.
Navigable Waters, What Lakes are .- The legislature of 1895 enacted a measure specifying that all lakes within the state which have been meandered and reported as navigable by the surveyors employed by the government of the United States; or which have been so meandered and are navigable in fact are hereby declared navigable and public waters.
Navigation in Wisconsin, Internal .- The only one of the many schemes for internal navigation in Wisconsin proposed in the early history of the state which materialized was the Fox and Wiscon- sin rivers canal, which connects the two rivers named near the city of Portage. The advent of railroad building together with the uncertain stage of water in the Wisconsin river rendered that expensive improvement useless.
Nayda, a country postoffice of Shawano county. Shawano, the county seat, is 14 miles northen .
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Necedah, an incorporated village of Juneau county, on the Yel- low river and a station of both the C. & N. W. and the C., M. & St. I'. Rys., 16 miles north of Mauston, the county seat. The popula- tion of 1,116 supports a bank and a weekly newspaper, the Nece- dal Republican.
Necedah Junction .- See Wyeville.
Neenah .- This incorporated city of Winnebago county, on the Fox river at the outlet of Lake Winnebago, is directly across the river from Menasha. The C. & N. W., the W. C. and the C., M. & St. P. Rys., all enter the city ; and an interurban trolley line con- nects this city with Oshkosh, the county seat, which is 13 miles southwest, and Appleton, 6 miles to the north. There are two daily and two weekly newspapers, the News (daily and weekly), and the Times (daily and weekly), and two substantial banks. It has a population of 6,047.
Negotiable Instruments, Law of .- Chapter 356, laws of 1899, was prepared by a commission of experts to secure for this state a measure relating to negotiable instruments, adequate and also uni- form with laws proposed or adopted by many other states.
Nehrling, Henry, is Wisconsin's chief ornithologist, a native of the state, whose principal work "Our Native Birds of Song and Beauty" was published first in German and later translated into English. Mr. Nehrling was for many years connected with the Milwaukee pubhc museum but of late years has been making his home in Florida.
Nekoosa, an incorporated village on the Wisconsin river, in Wood county, 812 miles south of Grand Rapids, the county seat. Transportation facilities are furnished its population of 1,100 by three railroads the W. C., the C., M. & St. P. and the C. & N. W. Rys. The first settlement of the place was in 1893.
Nelson, a post village of 300 population in Buffalo county, and a station on the C., B. & Q. R. R., 9 miles northwest of Alma, the county seat.
Nelsonville, a postoffice of 150 people in Portage county. 14 miles east of Stevens Point, the county : cat.
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Nenno, a postoffice of 50 people in Washington county, 12 miles west of West Bend, the county seat.
Neosho, a post village of Dodge county, on the Rubicon river, 14 miles southeast of Juneau, the county seat. Its population of 328 supports a weekly newspaper, the Neosho Standard.
Neptune, a post village of 50 people in Richland county, 10 miles northeast of Richland Center, the county seat.
Nero, a postoffice of 40 people in Manitowoc county, on the shore of Lake Michigan. It is 19 miles northeast of Manitowoc, the county seat.
Neshkoro, a post village of Marquette county, on the White river and a station on the C. & N. W. Ry., 18 miles northeast of Mon- tello, the county seat.
Neuern, a country postoffice of Kewaunce county. Kewaunce, the county seat, is 14 miles southeast.
Neva, a discontinued postoffice in Langlade county.
Nevins, a discontinued postoffice in Clark county.
Newark, a country postoffice of Rock county. Janesville, the county seat, is 18 miles to the northeast.
New Auburn, a post village in Chippewa county, formerly called Auburn, and a station on the C., St. P., M. & O. Ry., 23 miles north- west of Chippewa Falls, the county seat. The population of 356 supports a bank and a weekly newspaper, the New Auburn Times.
Newberg Corners, a settlement in La Crosse county, 15 miles east of La Crosse, the county seat.
New Berlin, a discontinued postoffice in Waukesha county.
Newburg, a post village of 300 population on the Milwaukee river in Washington county, 8 miles east of West Bend, the county seat.
New Cassel, a post village on the Milwaukee river in Fond du Lac county, and a station on the C. & N. W. Ry., 16 miles south- east of Fond du Lac, the county seat. It has a population of 500.
New Centerville, a postoffice of 60 people on the Rush river in St. Croix county, 26 miles southeast of Hudson, the county seat.
New Coeln, a discontinued postoffice in Milwaukee county.
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New Diggings, a post village of La Fayette county with a popu- lation of 250. It is 18 miles southwest of Darlington, the county seat.
Newfane, a post town of 100 people on the east fork of the Mil- waukee river in Fond du Lac county, 25 miles southeast of Fond du Lac, the county seat.
New France .- That portion of North America including Canada and the greater portion of what is now called the middle west was claimed by the French by reason of the work of French explorers, missionaries and fur traders and called New France. This coun- try was ceded to Great Britain in 1763 as a result of the French and Indian war, and later that portion of it lying within the pres- ent boundaries of the United States was ceded by England to the United States in 1783, at the close of the War of the Revolu- tion.
New Franken, a post town with 200 inhabitants in Brown county, and a station on the K., G. B. & W. Ry., 10 miles north- east of Green Bay, the county scat.
New Glarus, an incorporated village in Green county on the Lit- tle Sugar river and the C., M. & St. P. Ry., 18 miles north of Monroe, the county seat. The population of 655 supports a bank. It was around New Glarus that the first considerable Swiss colony in Wisconsin was located.
Newhall House, Burning of .- The famous Milwaukee hostelry was destroyed by fire on the morning of Jan. 10, 1883, and 80 per- sons lost their lives, owing to the rapidity with which the flames spread through the cheaply constructed building.
New Holstein, an incorporated village of Calumet county, and a station on the C., M. & St. P. Ry., 7 miles southeast of Chilton, the county seat. The population of Goff supports a bank.
New Hope, a discontinued postoffice in Portage county.
New Lisbon, an incorporated city on the Lemonweir river in Juneau county and a station on the C., M. & St. P. Ry., 7 miles northwest of Mauston, the county seat. It has a population of 1,095 which supports 2 banks and two weekly newspapers, the New Lisbon Times and the Juncan County Argus.
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New London, an incorporated city on the Wolf river in Wau- paca county at the junction of the C. & N. W. and the G. B. & W. Rys., 22 miles northeast of Waupaca, the county seat. It has a population of 3,002, two banks and two weekly newspapers, the Republican and the Press.
Newman, Alfred William, an associate justice of the Wisconsin supreme court, was born April 5, 1834 at Durham, N. Y .; gradu- ated from Hamilton college in 1857 and was admitted to the New York bar the same year. He came to Wisconsin in 1858; settled in Trempealcau county ; became county judge there in 1860; was a member of the state senate and also of the assembly. He became judge of the 13th judicial circuit in 18?6; the number of his circuit was changed in 1878 to the 6th and Newman was re-elected. In 1893 was elected associate justice of the supreme court. He died Jan. 12, 1898, as the result of an accident.
New Munster, a post town of 152 people in Kenosha county. Kenosha, the county seat, is 2112 miles to the east.
Newport, a discontinued postoffice in Door county.
New Prospect, a discontinued postoffice in Fond du Lac county.
New Richmond, an incorporated city of St. Croix county, on Wil- low river, and the W. C. and the C., St. P., M. & O. Rys., 18 miles northeast of Iludson, the county seat. There are two newspapers, the News (weekly) and the Republican Voice (semi-weekly), and two banks. This city was visited by a tornado on the evening of June 12, 1899, and more than half of it was devastated. About 100 lives were lost.
New Rome, a country postoffice in Adams county, 22 miles northwest of Friendship, the county seat.
Newry, a country postoffice of Vernon county. Viroqua, the county seat, is 14 miles to the south.
Newton, a post village of 100 people in Vernon county, on the North Bad Ax river, 12 miles northwest of Viroqua, the county seat.
Newtonburg, a discontinued postoffice in Manitowoc county.
New Wood River, a tributary of the Wisconsin river which rises
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and is wholly within Lincoln county. Its flow is southeast and it joins the larger river northwest of Merrill.
Niagara, a post village of Marinette county, with a population of 1.250. Marinette, the county seat, is 60 miles to the south.
Nicholson, a discontinued postoffice in Waupaca county.
Niebull, a country postoffice of Adams county, 15 miles north- east of Friendship, the county seat.
Niles, a discontinued postoffice in Manitowoc county.
Nixcorner, a discontinued postoffice in Eau Claire county.
Nobleton, a country postoffice of Washburn county, 18 miles southeast of Shell Lake, the county seat.
Nora, a discontinued postoffice in Dane county.
Norden, a discontinued .postoffice in Buffalo county.
Norman, a postoffice of 20 people in Kewaunee county, 10 miles southwest of Kewaunee, the county seat.
Norrie, a post village of 200 population on the C. & N. W. Ry. in Marathon county, 20 miles southeast of Wausau, the county seat.
Norske, a country postoffice in Waupaca county, 25 miles north- west of Waupaca, the county scat.
North Andover, a post town of Grant county, with 100 people, 1212 miles northwest of Lancaster, the county seat.
North Bend, a post village of 150 inhabitants in Jackson county, 24 miles southwest of Black River Falls, the county seat. It is located on the Black river.
North Bloomfield, a country postoffice within 5 miles of Lake Geneva, Walworth county.
North Bristol, a post office of 150 people in Dane county, 18 miles northeast of Madison, the county seat.
North Cape, a post village with a population of 100 in Racine county, 16 miles northwest of Racine, the county scat.
North Crandon, a post village of 400 people in Forest county, 71/2 miles north of Crandon, the county scat. It is also a station on the M., St. P. & S. Ste. M. Ry.
Northeim, a discontinued postoffice in Manitowoc county.
Northfield, a postoffice with a population of Go in Jackson county, 20 miles northwest of Black River Falls, the county seat.
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North Fond du Lac, substation of Fond du Lac postoffice.
North Fork, a post ctation on the M., St. P. & S. Ste. M. Ry. in Price county. Its nearest place for banking purposes, etc., is Pren- tice.
North Freedom, an incorporated post village on the C. & N. W. Ry. in Sank county, 7 miles west of Baraboo, the county seat. The population of 528 supports a weekly newspaper, the Journal, and a bank.
North Greenfield .- See West Allis.
North Hudson, a post village of 200 people in St. Croix county on the C., St. P., M. & O. Ry. Hudson, the county seat, is one mile distant.
North Lake, a post town of Waukesha county, on the Oconomo- woc river and a station of the C., M. & St. P. Ry. in Waukesha county, 16 miles west of Waukesha, the county seat.
Northland, a country postoffice of Waupaca county, 22 miles northwest of Waupaca. the county seat.
North Leeds, a discontinued postoffice in Columbia county.
North Menomonie, a postoffice of Duun county, a part of the city of Menomonie.
North Milwaukee, an incorporated village in Milwaukee county, 5 miles north of Milwaukee, the county seat. The W. C. and the C., M. & St. P. Rys. pass through the village, which has a popula- tion of 1,236.
Northport, a post village of Waupaca county, on the Wolf river, and a station on the G. B. & W. R. R., 18 miles northeast of Wau- paca, the county seat. It has a population of 125.
North Prairie, a post village with a population of 300 and a sta- tion of the C., M. & St. P. Ry. in Waukesha county, 11 miles south- west of Waukesha. the county seat.
North Valley, a discontinued postoffice in Polk county.
North West, now a substation of the Milwaukee postoffice.
Northwest Company, The .- A fur trading company, under this namie, was organized in 1783 with headquarters at Montreal and trading points at Mackinac, Green Bay and Chequamegon Bay. It played an important part in the for trade in the Wisconsin
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country. After 1816 it was merged with the American Fur com- pany.
Norwalk, an incorporated village in Monroe county, on Moore's creek, and a station on the C. & N. W. Ry .. 13 miles southeast of Sparta, the county seat It has a population of 475, a bank and a weekly newspaper. the Star
Norway Grove, a postoffice in Dane county. Madison, the county seat, is 15 miles to the south.
Norway Ridge, a country postoffice of Monroe county, and a sta- tion on the C., M. & St. P. Ry., 31 miles northeast of Sparta, the county seat.
Newell, a discontinued postoffice in Waupaca county.
Nullification .- Three times in the history of the territory and state the people through the courts, by legislative enactment and in public conventions have taken action to nullify Federal authority upon certain matters. In 1814, after the territory, which after- ward became Wisconsin, had been several times reduced by con- gress, the territorial legislature sitting at Madison addressed a memorial to congress protesting against the infringement upon Wisconsin territory, and declaring that the failure of congress to restore to Wisconsin what had been taken would compel the peo- ple of the territory to "Take for ourselves and our state the boundaries fixed by that ordinance (1282), form our state consti- tution which should be republican, apply for admission into the union with these boundaries, and if refused. so that we could not be a state in the union, we would be a state out of the union, and possessing, exercising and enjoying all the rights, privileges and powers of the sovereign independent state of Wisconsin; and if difficulties must ensue we could appeal with confidence to the great Umpire of Nations to adjust it." This belligerent manifesto was ignored by the Federal congress and Wisconsin was admitted shorn of much territory which the people believed belonged to it.
At a mass meeting held in Racine in 1854 to protest against the arrest of Glover, a fugitive slave (q. v.). resolutions were adopted denouncing the Fugitive Slave Act and adding that "We, as citi- zens of Wisconsin are justified in declaring and hereby do declare
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the slave-catching act of 1850 as disgraceful, and also repealed." In 1857 the legislature passed "An act relating to the writ of habeas corpus to persons claimed as fugitive slaves, the right of trial by jury ; and to prevent kidnapping in the state." The most impor- tant provision of this measure was that declaring that judgments recovered against any one for not obeying the provisions of the Fugitive Slave Act should not constitute a lien. In 1859 the legis- lature adopted a resolution relative to the Sherman Booth case de- claring that "The assumption of jurisdiction by the Federal judges in the said case, and without process is an act of undelegated power, and therefore without authority and void and of no force." In the Booth case the Wisconsin supreme court in 1854, covering the Glover case, hield that "The act of congress of 1850, commonly called the Fugitive Slave Act, is unconstitutional and voi.l" giving five reasons therefor, the chief one being that "it does not provide for a trial by jury of the fact that the alleged fugitive owes service to the claimant by the laws of another state, and of escape there- from."
In 1873 the legislature passed a bill authorizing the construction of a bridge over the Mississippi at La Crosse. Congress had an- thorized the construction of the bridge at a certain point. That point being found unsuitable by the engineers the legislature an- thorized the construction of the bridge a mile or more north of the city. Goernor Washburn vetoed the measure with this ex- planation : "I cannot approve of this bill without sanctioning the nullification of a law of congress plainly authorized by the constitution. It is an assertion of state's rights never before claimed, within my knowledge, where congress had already acted in the premises, in any section of the country,- not even in that section of country where those rights have been most watchfully guarded."
Nutt, a postoffice of Douglas county and a station on the D., S., S. & A. Ry., 18 miles southeast of Superior, the county seat.
Nutterville, a discontinued postoffice in Marathon county.
Nye, a post town with a population of 150 on the M., St. P. &
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S. Ste. M. Ry. in Polk county. Balsam Lake, the county scat, is 16 miles distant.
Oak Center, a post town of 100 people on the C. & N. W. Ry. in Fond du Lac county, 12 miles southwest of Fond du Lac, the county seat.
Oakdale, a post village with a population of 200 in Monroe county on the C., M. & St. P. Ry., 24 miles cast of Sparta, the county seat.
Oakfield, an incorporated village with a population of 548 on the Fond du Lac river and the C. & N. W. Ry. in Fond du Lac county, 9 miles southwest of Fond du Lac, the county seat. It was first settled in 1842. There is a bank and also a weekly newspaper, the. Oakfield Eagle.
Oak Hill, a discontinued postoffice in Jefferson county. . .
Oak Island, is one of the Apostle Islands in Lake Superior. It is under the jurisdiction of Ashland county.
Oakland, a discontinued postoffice in Jefferson county.
Oakland, a country postoffice in Burnett county, 27 miles north- east of Grantsburg, the county seat.
Oakley, a country postoffice on Spring creek in Green county, 14 miles southeast of Monroe, the county seat.
Oak Ridge, a country postoffice of Adams county. Friendship, the county seat, is 18 miles to the southwest.
Oaks, a discontinued postoffice in Sauk county.
Oakwood, a postoffice of Milwaukee county with a population of 150 and a station of the C., M. & St. P. Ry., 12 miles south of Mil- waukee, the county seat.
Observatory, The Washburn .- See University of Wisconsin.
Oconomowoc, an incorporated city and a famous summer resort in Waukesha county, on the Oconomowoc river, Lake La Belle and the C., M. & St. P. Ry., 18 miles northwest of Waukesha, the county seat. Oconomowoc is the center of the Waukesha lake region. There are two banks and two weekly newspapers, the Enterprise (Ind.), and the Free Press (Rep. It has a population of 3,013.
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Oconto .- This is a city of 5,722 people, the county seat of the county of the same name. Its transportation facilities are excel- lent, being situated on the shore of Green bay at the mouth of the Oconto river, and the C., M. & St. P. and the C. & N. W. Rys. enter the city. Lumbering was formerly the chief industry but the development of the surrounding country is making it a farm mar- ket. There are two substantial banks and four newspapers, the Oconto County Enterprise, the Lumberman, the Enquirer and the Oconto County Reporter.
Oconto County, named after a river of that name, is in the east- ern part of the state, on Green bay. Its organization occurred in 1851. The soil is a clayey loam, with tracts of sandy loam and swamp lands. It covers 1,127 square miles and in 1905 had a population of 25,580. The city of Oconto is the county seat.
Oconto Falls, an incorporated village on the Oconto river and the C. & N. W. Ry., 14 miles west of Oconto, the county seat. Its population of 1,301 supports a bank and a weekly newspaper, the Oconto Falls Herald.
Odanah Indian Reservation in Ashland county on the Bad river, includes the Indian village Odanah, (population 2,000), on the C. & N. W. Ry., 8 miles east of Ashland, the county seat.
Odd Fellows, Independent Order of .- In Wisconsin there are 323 subordinate Odd Fellow lodges, with a total membership of 17,275; 73 encampments with a membership of 2,805; ten cantons with 331 members and 200 Rebekah lodges with a membership of 10.143 persons. During the year 1905 the total receipts of this organization amounted to $184,760. The total paid for the relief of members, their widows and orphans amounted to $34,964. Thic expenses necessary for maintaining the various subordinate and grand lodges amounted to $123,000, leaving a balance of $26,807 in the various lodge treasuries. The value of real estate and other invested funds of this order amount to about $600,000 in Wisconsin. The order owns a home at Green Bay where aged and indigent members, their widows and orphans, are cared for and for which each member of the order is taxed 50 cents per annum.
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Ogdensburg, a post village of 350 population on the G. B. & W. R. R. in Waupaca county, 9 miles north of Waupaca, the county seat.
Ogden Land Company, a company incorporated in New York about 1827 for the purpose of promoting the colonization of Indians in the then territory of Michigan, in order that the reservations occupied by the Indians in the eastern states might be made avail- able for settlement.
Ogema, a post village of Price county, with a population of 300, and a station on the W. C. Ry., 19 miles southeast of Phillips, the county seat.
Ohio Purchase, The .- An association organized in Boston in 1286 and originally made up of 268 generals who participated in the revolution, had for its purpose the securing of homes and estates in the northwest, by exchanging soldiers' script for land. The organization and its demands for some kind of government in the northwest were the chief influences that brought about the Ordi- nance of 1787 and secured the insertion of the anti-slavery clause in that ordinance.
Okauchee, a postoffice of 75 people on the C., M. & St. P. Ry. in Waukesha county, 16 miles northwest of Waukesha, the county seat.
Okee, a post town of 100 people on the C. & N. W. Ry. in Colum- bia county, 17 miles southwest of Portage, the county seat.
Oleomargarine, an artificial substitute for butter of which the state laws prohibit the sale unless plainly marked with its name, and uncolored .- See Dairy and Food Commissioner.
Olivet, a post town of 120 people in Pierce county, 15 miles northeast of Ellsworth, the county seat.
Omro, au incorporated village with a population of 1,300 on the Fox river in Winnebago county, 12 miles west of Oshkosh, the county seat. Oshkosh is reached by interurban electric line and the C., M. & St. P. Ry. furnishes transportation to other places. It dates its settlement from 1845. There are two banks and two weekly newspapers, the Journal and the Herald.
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