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nection with all important lake ports. Mani- 

 towoc received its city charter in 1870. Ger- 

 mans and Poles represent the foreign element 

 of the people; the population in 1910 was 

 13,027; in 1916 it was 13,805 (Federal estimate). 

 The area of the city is nearly three square 

 miles. 



Manitowoc has a good harbor and fine ship- 

 ping facilities, and sends out large quantities of 

 grain, lumber and dairy products. Shipbuilding 

 and ship repairing constitute the principal in- 

 dustries; there are, besides, large grain ele- 

 vators, coal docks, salt houses, manufactories 

 of furniture, and canning and cheese factories. 

 Manitowoc has three parks. The Polish Or- 

 phan Home, the county insane asylum, Holy 

 Family and Saint Mary's -hospitals, Saint Felix 

 Industrial and Reform School and Saint James 

 Library are the noteworthy features of the 

 city. 



MANKA'TO, MINN., is the county seat of 

 Blue Earth County, in the south-central part 

 of the state. Saint Paul is eighty-five miles 

 northeast; Sioux City is 183 miles southwest. 

 Mankato is on the Minnesota River, just be- 

 low the mouth of the Blue Earth River, and 

 navigation is possible a part of the year. Built 

 upon the side of the south bluff of the Minne- 

 sota River, the city is famed for the beauty of 

 its site. It is served by the Chicago, Saint 

 Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha ; the Chicago & 

 North Western; the Chicago, Milwaukee & 

 Saint Paul, and the Chicago Great Western 

 railroads. The area is nearly seven square 

 miles. The population, which is fifty per cent 

 German and Scandinavian, in 1910 was 10,365. 



Mankato has a state normal school, a young 

 ladies' seminary (Lutheran), Catholic Mother 

 House and Seminary, and Immaculate and 

 Saint Joseph's hospitals. The Federal building, 

 county courthouse, Carnegie library and Y. M. 

 C. A. building are prominent structures. Places 

 of interest are Rapadan Dam, Minneopa State 

 Park, containing Minneopa Falls, and Sibley 

 Park, where, after an Indian uprising in 1862, 

 thirty-eight Indians were hanged; about 300 

 others were condemned, but the sentence was 

 commuted by President Lincoln. Near the 

 city are several lakes which attract many sum- 

 mer visitors. 



In the vicinity are large quarries of pinkish- 

 buff limestone, the annual output of which is 

 valued at $100,000. Cement works, a traction 

 engine and trip-hammer factory, a creamery 

 package factory, shirt and overall factory and 

 a knitting mill are among the important manu- 



facturing industries. Mankato ships quantities 

 of grain and other agricultural produce. Near 

 the city once stood a village of the Mankato 

 tribe of Sioux Indians, for whom the town was 

 named. It was settled in 1853 and chartered 

 in 1868. In 1910 the commission form of gov- 

 ernment was adopted. E.F.S. 



MANN, HORACE (1796-1859), one of the most 

 famous educators the United States has pro- 

 duced. He was born at Franklin, Mass., gradu- 

 ated in 1819 at Brown University, and after 

 studying law at Litchfield, Conn., was in 1823 

 admitted to the 

 bar. For ten years 

 he practiced law 

 .at Delham, and 

 during the latter 

 half of that time 

 was a member of 

 the state legisla- 

 ture; in 1883 he 

 was elected to the 

 state senate, of 

 which he became 

 president in 1836. 

 From the begin- HORACE MANN 



ning of his public He laid the foundation for 



America's common school sys- 



life he showed a tern and organized the first 



great enthusiasm normal schooL 

 for philanthropy and for educational reform, 

 and this continued throughout his life, often 

 at the cost of his own financial interests. 



When, in 1837, a board of education was ap- 

 pointed to remodel the school system of Mas- 

 sachusetts, Mann was made its secretary. He 

 gave up his law practice and his political aspi- 

 rations, and devoted all his time and energy 

 to establishing reforms. Many of his measures 

 met with violent disapproval, but he persisted, 

 and in time not only Massachusetts, but prac- 

 tically every state in the American Union 

 profited by his work. Indeed, he may be looked 

 upon as practically the founder of the common 

 school system. At his own expense he visited 

 Europe in 1843, and embodied in his Reports 

 the results of his study of educational methods 

 there. He also founded at Lexington, Mass., in 

 1839, the first training school for teachers in the 

 United States. 



In 1848 he was elected to Congress, where he 

 remained until 1853, energetically opposing slav- 

 ery. From 1852 until his death he was president 

 of Antioch College, at Yellow Springs, Ohio, 

 and in that position made his influence felt in 

 the movement for equal educational opportuni- 

 ties for men and women. Greater than any 



