. Portrait and biographical album of Green Lake, Marquette and Waushara counties, Wisconsin ... ars iu the manufacture of lumberand flour. After the destruction, in 1878, of hisgreat mill at Minneapolis, where he was one of theearly and principal owners of the St. AnthonysFalls Water Power, he went to Europe for the pur-pose of studjing the various processes of makingflour. As a result he was the first to intioduce intoAmerica the Hungarian roller svstem, and what isknown as the patent process of producing flour, andmade his new mill the largest and best in theworld. Gov. Washburns charities w
. Portrait and biographical album of Green Lake, Marquette and Waushara counties, Wisconsin ... ars iu the manufacture of lumberand flour. After the destruction, in 1878, of hisgreat mill at Minneapolis, where he was one of theearly and principal owners of the St. AnthonysFalls Water Power, he went to Europe for the pur-pose of studjing the various processes of makingflour. As a result he was the first to intioduce intoAmerica the Hungarian roller svstem, and what isknown as the patent process of producing flour, andmade his new mill the largest and best in theworld. Gov. Washburns charities were noblj^ and mod-estljr bestowed—Washburn Observatory to theWisconsin State University, at Iiladison; PeoplesLibrary, in La Crosse; Minneapolis Orphans Asy-lum, in memory of his mother; his beautiful homeand grounds, at Edgwood, near Madison, to theCatholic Sisters, the State having refused to acceptit for public purposes, and numerous lesser gifts. Hedied of paralysis, superinduced by a complication ofdiseases, at Eureka Springs, Ark., on May 14,1882,aged sixty-four years, ^^^C LIBRARY.
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