Oshkosh
a city and county-seat of Winnebago co., Wis., on both sides of the Fox river, and on the Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie, the Chicago and Northwestern, and the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul railroads.
Here are the court house, city hall, United States government building, public library, high school, School of the Deaf and Dumb, State Normal School, County Hospital for the Incurable Insane, the Northern State Hospital for the Insane, street railroad and electric light plant, waterworks, National and state banks, parks, and several daily and weekly newspapers. It has a large lumbering industry, manufactories of carriages and wagons, machinery, tobacco and flour, and meat packing plants. Pop. (1910) 33,062; (1920) 33,162.