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 602 MINNEIIAHA MINNESOTA large buildings on the E. side of the river. (See MINNESOTA, UNIVERSITY OF.) Augsburg theological seminary (Evangelical Lutheran) was organized in 1869 by Scandinavians. In 1873-'4 it had 5 professors and instructors, 63 students, and a library of 1,100 volumes. There are also an academy, a female seminary, and a business college. The Methodists are erecting (1875) a large edifice near the city for Hamline university, soon to be organized. The public schools embrace the various grades from primary to high school. ' There are ten school buildings of brick and stone. The num- ber of departments in 1873 was 35 ; teachers, 37; pupils enrolled, 2,298; average attendance, 1,866. The Athenaeum library contains 4,000 volumes. There are two daily and nine week- ly (two Norwegian and one German) newspa- pers, and two semi-monthly (one Norwegian) periodicals. The number of churches is 48, viz. : 5 Baptist (1 African and 1 Swedish), 1 Christian, 5 Congregational, 4 Episcopal (be- sides 2 missions), 1 Freewill Baptist, 1 Friends', 7 Lutheran (3 German Evangelical, 3 Norwe- gian, and 1 Swedish Evangelical), 11 Metho- dist (1 African, 2 German, and 1 Scandinavi- an), 4 Presbyterian, 4 Roman Catholic, 1 Swe- denborgian, 1 Unitarian, and 3 Universalist. Minneapolis was first settled in 1849, and ori- ginally embraced only that portion of the city on the W. bank of the Mississippi. It was in- corporated in 1867, and in 1872 the city of St. Anthony on the E. bank of the river (incor- porated in 1856) was consolidated with it. MIMEHAHA, a S. E. county of Dakota, bor- dering on Minnesota and Iowa, and drained by the Big Sioux river ; area, 816 sq. m. ; pop. in 1870, 355. The surface is elevated, and the soil productive. Capital, Sioux Falls. MIYN KS1 VGERS (Ger. Minne, love, and Sang- er, singer), a school of German poets which sprang into existence in the latter half of the 12th century, and flourished until near the close of the 13th. Their themes were ama- tory and heroic, and were treated in much the same manner as those of the troubadours of Provence, though in a more earnest spirit and after a purer ideal conception of love. (See GERMANY, LITERATURE OF, vol. vii., p. 763.) MINNESOTA, one of the northwestern states of the American Union, the 19th admitted, and the 28th in rank according to population, situated between lat. 43 30' and 49 24' N., and Ion. 89 39' and 97 5' W. ; extreme length N. and S., 380 m. ; breadth from 183 m. in the middle to 262 m. on the S. line and 337 m. near the N. line ; area, 83,531 sq. m. It is bounded N. by British America, the dividing line being formed W. of the lake of the Woods by the 49th paral- lel, and E. of that lake by Rainy Lake river, Rainy and other lakes, and Pigeon river ; E. by Lake Superior and Wisconsin, from which it is separated by a line drawn due S. from the first rapids in the St. Louis river to the St. Croix river, and by the St. Croix and Mississippi rivers ; S. by Iowa ; and W. by Dakota, from which it is divided by the Red river of the North, the Bois des Sioux river, Lake Traverse and Big Stone lake, and a line drawn directly S. from the outlet of the last named lake to the Iowa State Seal of Minnesota. boundary. The state is divided into 76 coun- ties, viz. : Aitken, Anoka, Becker, Beltrami, Benton, Big Stone, Blue Earth, Brown, Carl- ton, Carver, Cass, Chippewa, Chisago, Clay, Cook, Cottonwood, Crow Wing, Dakota, Dodge, Douglas, Faribault, Fillmore, Free- born, Goodhue, Grant, Hennepin, Houston, Isanti, Itasca, Jackson, Kanabec, Kandiyohi, Lac qui Parle, Lake, Le Sueur, Lincoln, Lyon, McLeod, Martin, Meeker, Mille Lacs, Morrison, Mower, Murray, Nicollet, Nobles, Olmsted, Otter Tail, Pembina, Pine, Polk, Pope, Ram- sey, Redwood, Renville, Rice, Rock, St. Louis, Scott, Sherburne, Sibley, Stearns, Steele, Ste- vens, Swift, Todd, Traverse, Wabashaw, Wa- dena, Waseca, Washington, Watonwan, Wil- kin, Winona, Wright, Yellow Medicine. St. Paul, the capital, near the E. border of the state, 400 m. N. W. of Chicago, had 20,030 in- habitants in 1870. The other cities, accord- ing to the census of 1870, were: Duluth, 3,131 inhabitants ; Hastings, 3,458 ; Mankato, 3,482 ; Minneapolis, 13,066; Owatonna, 2,070; Red Wing, 4,260; Rochester, 3,953; St. Anthony, 5,013; St. Cloud, 2,161; and Winona, 7,192. Since the census St. Anthony has been annexed to Minneapolis. The population of Minnesota was 6,077 in 1850, 172,023 in 1860, 250,099 (state census) in 1865, and 439,706 in 1870, in- cluding 438,257 white, 759 colored, and 690 Indians. The calculated population on June 1, 1873, was 552,459. Of the total population in 1870, 235,299 were males and 204,407 females, and 279,009 were of native and 160,697 of foreign birth. Of the natives, 125,491 were born in the state, 10,979 in Illinois, 9,939 in Maine, 39,507 in New York, 12,651 in Ohio, 11,966 in Pennsylvania, and 24,048 in Wiscon- sin. The foreign population comprised 16,698 born in British America, 1,910 in Denmark, 1,743 in France, 41,364 in Germany, 5,670 in England, 21,748 in Ireland, 2,194 in Scotland,