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"At a term of the District-Court of Walworth County, begun and held at Elkhorn on Monday the twenty-second day of April. 1839; present the Honorable David Irvin. Judge of said Court :
"Ordered, that LeGrand Rockwell be appointed clerk of the District Court for the County of Walworth. Whereupon the said Rockwell entered into Bonds in the penal sum of two thousand dollars, conditioned as the Law directs, with Othni Beardsley and William Bowman, his securities, and took the Oath of Office as prescribed by law.
"Ordered that Charles M. Baker be admitted as an Attorney and Counsel- lor at Law to appear and practice in this and other Courts of Record within this Territory. it appearing to the Court that he is entitled so to do. Where- upon said Baker took the oath of office."
"Ansel A. Hemenway 1 .Appeal from Justice.
Chauncey Ives.
"And now comes the plaintiff by Horatio N. Wells, [of Milwaukee ] his attorney and moves the Court here for leave to file a declaration in said Cause. Whereupon it is ordered that said leave be given and that said dec-
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laration be filed within thirty days hereafter and all other pleadings there- after within twenty days successively until issue and the cause be continued generally."
"Thomas McKaig. Appellant. VS 1 Appeal from Justice.
Israel Williams, Appellee.
"On motion of Moses M. Strong [of Mineral Point], attorney for the Appellant. ordered that a rule be entered that Benjamin Ball Esq., Justice of the Peace before whom the above entitled cause was tried, make due return of the proceedings in the said cause and that an attachment be granted to compel the same.
"Ordered that this Court be adjourned until the next term thereof. [Oct. 1839].
"DAVID IRVIN, Judge."
At the October term a jury was called in the case of MeKaig vs. Will- iams, and the trial resulted in a verdict for the defendant. The jurors were John S. Boyd, John Byrd, William Carter, Thomas Gates, Alonzo Grow, Cyrus Horton, George W. Kendall ( foreman), Abel Neff, Soldan Powers, David Pratt, Morris Ross, and William Stork. The other jurors drawn for the term were William Bohall. Isaac Burson, Perkins S. Child, David S. Elt- ing. Thomas Fellows, Solomon Finch, Daniel G. Foster. Daniel Hartwell, Loren K. Jones, Thomas W. Miller, Austin MeCracken, Marcus Montague, Benjamin C. Pearce. Horace Smith, Nelson Spoor. Ebenezer Tupper. Elijah Worthington.
The grand jurors at this term were Joseph Barker, Asa Blood, Deodat Brewster, Alexander H. Bunnell. Jacob Burgit, Richard Chenery, George Clark, Christopher Douglass, Norman C. Dyer, Charles M. Goodsell, Morris F. Hawes, Mason Hicks, Willard B. Johnson, John Lippit, James Maxwell ( foreman), Urban D. Meacham, Amos Older, Samuel F. Phoenix, Samuel Prince. John Reader. Jacob G. Sanders, H. Smith Young. Robert Young. William B. Lewis was indicted for larceny and Reuben T. Ostrander for per- jury. The case against Lewis was dismissed. A nolle prosequi was entered in the case against Ostrander, it having been shown that Squire MeKaig, who had committed him for trial, was a but half-naturalized citizen. The last term of the territorial court opened May 22, 1848. and adjourned without a day June 3d. Beyond the short roll of attorneys admitted to Wisconsin practice there is little of historic interest in the clerk's journal of the court's proceedings.
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ROLL OF ATTORNEYS, 1839-1848.
Delavan-William C. Allen, Stephen S. Barlow, Milo Kelsey, 1842; William H. Pettit.
East Troy-Alender O. Babcock.
Elkhorn-Lyman Cowdery, 1848; Edward Elderkin, 1839: George Gale, 1841 ; Wyman Spooner, 1842; Horatio S. Winsor, 1841.
Geneva-Charles M. Baker, 1839; Experience Estabrook, 1840; James Simmons, 1843.
Spring Prairie-Charles D. Pulver, 1842.
Troy-Urban D. Meachanı.
Whitewater-Prosper Cravath, 1845; Warner Earle, Frederick C. Pat- terson, 1844; Eleazar Wakeley.
Residence unknown-Charles Aiken, 1845; Thomas D. Grant.
One case in this court was made widely famous, for the period of a half generation of men, from the humorous account of it given by Andrew E. Elmore, long known as the Sage of Mukwonago, in a speech (as member of Assembly) at the legislative session of 1859 or 1860, in support of a bill for abolishing all laws for collection of debts. From the sale of a yoke of oxen, somewhere in Jefferson county, grew a suit which, by new trials, changes of venue, and other useful devices, was prolonged until the costs amounted to more than the price of many yoked or unyoked oxen. Mr. Elmore was of the counsel in this cause when one of its changes of venue brought it to Elkhorn. He explained to his fellow legislators that he had learned from ob- servation or information that if one would win his cause in Judge Irvin's court he must go hunting with His Honor, praise "York," His Honor's horse, regardless of truth or likelihood, or feed and fondle "Pedro," His Hon- or's dog. Mr. Elmore made "Pedro" think him a true friend, and so far prospered in court as to obtain a favorable ruling on his motion for a new trial of the cattle case. As the Judge gave his instruction to the clerk, "Pe- dro" made awkwardly free with his new friend, who, a little annoyed, gave the brute a kick. The Judge saw the action and heard the yelp for redress. Before the clerk had begun to enter the ruling just made the Judge reversed it. "Mr. Speaker, that kick cost me five hundred dollars!" This speech was published in most of the newspapers of America and of Great Britain and her colonies, and was included in various selections for the use of young elo- cutionists. The fame thus accruing to Mr. Elmore was not bought much too dearly at its cost to him.
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"At a term of the Circuit Court in and for the County of Walworth begun and held at the Court House in Elkhorn on the first Monday, the sec- ond day of October, A. D. 1848. Present the Hon. Edward V. Whiton, judge of said Court." So begins Mr. Clerk's journal. The first cause called for trial was that of Edwin Hodges vs. Henry Bradley et al .; George Gale for the defense. The case was continued at defendant's cost. The grand jurors were Oramel Armstrong, Robert Augier, John A. Baird, Leander Birge, Deo- dat Brewster, George Dann, Jared Fox, Lewis B. Goodsell, Henry H. Hart- son, Elias Hibbard ( foreman), Linus Merrill, Zenas Ogden, Isaac Raymond, Moses Seymour, Sewall Smith, Henry J. Starin, Jeremiah Wilcox. The names of men who attended court and drew pay and mileage as petit jurors were: Calvin M. Ashley, John W. Boyd, Jesse Brown, Alonzo A. Bryant, William Burgit, Joseph N. Cahoon, Cyrus Church, John DeGarmo, William DeWolf, George W. Dorrance, Charles Garfield, Samuel Gregory, Jacob R. Kling, Ansel Knowles, John Mereness, Silas Patten, Robert K. Potter, Martin O. Pulver, John Raleigh, Sherman M. Rockwood, Isaac Searl, George Sewell, George W. Sturges, Augustus Taintor, Isaac White, Anderson Whiting, Robert J. Wood.
The several judges of the first circuit were as follows:
Edward Vernon Whiton, Janesville. 1849
Wyman Spooner, Elkhorn, appointed. 1853
James Rood Doolittle, Racine. 1854
Charles Minton Baker, Geneva, appointed March. 1850
John Martin Keep, Beloit, elected April 1856
David Noggle 1858
William Penn Lyon, Racine 1866
Robert Harkness, Elkhorn 1871
' Ira T. Paine, Racine, appointed March 1875
John Theodore Wentworth. Lake Geneva. Junc 1875
John Bradley Winslow, Racine 1884
Frank M. Fish, Racine. 1801
Ellsworth Burnett Belden, Racine 1902
Judge Whiton became chief justice of the Wisconsin supreme court in June. 1853. Mr. Spooner was appointed by Governor Farwell and hell one term of court in this county. At the November election of that year to fill the vacancy for the remainder of the term of office, Mr. Spooner was de- feated by Mr. Doolittle, whose service began in the following January. in
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1856, after holding the January term of court, Judge Doolittle resigned and early in March Governor Barstow appointed Mr. Baker, who held the April court term for Racine county. March 25th a Republican convention for the circuit, at Delavan, on its ninth ballot, named John M. Keep, of Beloit, who was elected in April and presided at the May term of court. He resigned in May, 1858, and David Noggle was first appointed and then elected. Judge Lyon was transferred to the supreme bench. January, 1871. Mr. Harkness resigned in March. 1875, and went for his health to Salt Lake City. Judge Paine never presided at Elkhorn, but held spring terms at Kenosha and Ra- cine. Mr. Wentworth passed up from the circuit clerk's desk to the bench, and soon after his election became a citizen of Racine. After 1884 he be- came police judge at that city and died February 7, 1893. Judge Fish re- signed, went to Texas, returned and died in a sanitarium at Stevens Point. January 10, 1908. Judge Lyon, now nearly blind, but otherwise in fair health, lives near San Francisco. Judge Harkness is living, and Judge Wins- low is on duty as chief justice of the Wisconsin supreme court.
ROLL OF ATTORNEYS FROM 1848.
Darien-Joseph F. Lyon, 1871 ; Calvin Serl, Archibald Woodard.
Delavan-Alanson H. Barnes, 1854: D. Bennett Barnes, 1885: J. V. Bradway, 1857: Henry W. Clark, Edward E. Clippinger, 1884: Augustus J. Fiedler, 1878; Frederick B. Goodrich, 1888; Charles S. Griffin, 1862 ; Nicholas M. Harrington, 1862; Alphonso G. Kellam, 1859; Frederick E. Latimer, 1878: Thomas M. McHugh. 1849: Newton McGraw, Daniel B. Maxson, 1861 : Robert R. Menzie. 1849: Silas W. Menzie, 1866; William C. Norton, 1856: HI. D. Patchen, 1858: Arthur L. Shader, 1873; Hiram T. Sharp. 1864; Charles B. Sumner, 1886; Charles ]. Sumner, Alfred D. Thomas, 1863: Ernest L. Von Suessmilch, 1890.
East Troy-Henry Cousins, 1852; John Fraser, 1859; James D. Mer- rill, 1868; John F. Potter, 1852.
Elkhorn-Seth L. Carpenter. 1857: James Densmore, 1855; H. Seymour Dunlap, ISSI ; Henry M. Eastman, 1849; George M. Ferris, 1907; John L. Forrest, 1855; Peter Golder, 1850; Anthony Caspar Graff. 1888: Charles Daniel Ilandy, 1858: Robert Harkness, 1858; Del. C. Huntoon, 1890; Levi W. Lee. 1861: Jay F. Lyon, 1888; W. Clarence Norton, 1900: Jay W. Page, 1899: James Redfield, 1859: Arthur L. Sauborn. 1878: Harley F. Smith, 1850: Edward H. Sprague, 1878: Elnathan S. Weeden. 1872: Jaynes B. Wheeler, 1876: Curtis H. Winsor, 1868: Fernando Winsor. Frank H. Win- sor. 1888.
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Lake Geneva-L. L. Baxter, 1854; Dr. Hilton W. Boyce, 1857; Lewis G. Brown, 1897 : Hugh A. Burdick, 1889; Asa W. Farr, 1853; Charles S. French, 1879: Daniel E. Sherman, 1870; John Bell Simmons, 1873; John A. Smith, 1865; Stephen Bemis Van Buskirk. 1858; John T. Wentworth, Albert T. \'heeler.
Linn-John P. Ingalls, Wallace Ingalls.
Lyons-Elbert Osborn Hand, 1859; Robert Holley.
Richmond-A. B. Webber.
Sharon-Fayette P. Arnold, 1859: Charles H. Bronson, 1872: John T. Fish, 1859; Wilson L. Shunk, 1884.
Whitewater-Samuel Bishop, 1865; Jedidiah Brown, Robert C. Bulkley, 1906; Edwin Thomas Cass, 1878; Elliott D. Converse, 1864; E. Wood Cornes, 1857: Pitt N. Cravath. 1865: Henry J. Curtice, 1855; Frank N. Fryer, Hubert O. Hamilton, N. Augustus Hamilton, 1859; Henry Heady, 1873; Edson Kellogg, James G. Kestol, 1883; N. Alphonso Millard. Henry Oreb Montague, 1859: Newton S. Murphey. 1856; Joseph H. Page, 1866; James D. Robinson, 1864: Harry O. Seymour, George W. Steele, 1869; Paul H. Tratt, 1902; Thompson D. Weeks, 1859.
Philip V. Coon, 1868, William E. Sheffield, 1862, and Stephen S. Sibley, 1856, are not now assignable to any town. There are about fifty names recorded of men who are not known to have lived in the county, or. such as did live here went elsewhere to find practice. None of these are now of the Walworth bar, nor are there many here named who yet abide with us. Most of the dates wanting are likeliest to be recorded in other counties, of this or other states. It may be that none but a non-resident lawyer could grade justly these learned gentlemen, or place them in order of their profes- sional worth ; but it may be permissible to name some of those who have died or are now far away, to whom contemporary judgment accorded some qual- ities of leadership at the bar of the circuit. AAmong these, then, were Messrs. Babcock. Baker, Barlow, A. H. Barnes, Estabrook, Fish, Gale, Ilarkness, Kellam, MeHugh, Meacham, Menzie, Murphey. Sanborn, James Simmons, H. F. Smith, Wyman Spooner. C. B. Sumner, Thomas, Wakeley, Weeks, 11. S. Winsor.
The last grand juror list was made by the county board in 1872 for the following year's service, but the judge may make and file an order for sin- moning a grand jury under statutory provisions. In 1897 it became a judicial function to appoint a commission of three members for the duty of selecting and reporting a list of citizens for service as petit jurors. One member is ap-
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pointed each year and serves three years. Thus far five men have performed this service: Mortimer T. Park, of Elkhorn, 1897-9; John E. Menzie, La- grange, 1897-1911 ; John W. Brownson, Sharon, 1897-1912; George R. Allen, Bloomfield. 1899-1901 : John G. Meadows, Lyons, 1901-13.
CHAPTER N.
OFFICIAL ROSTER.
Since the admission of Wisconsin to statehood citizens of this county have shared but moderately in the honors of high place in federal or in state government. John Fox Potter. of East Troy, was a member of the national House of Representatives from 1857 to 1863, six years of a memorably ex- citing period of American politics. He stood manfully, in his first and sec- ond term, for freedom of debate, and in his third terin was of that group of western members who enjoyed the close personal as well as political friend- ship and confidence of President Lincoln. Defeated in 1862 by un friendly in- fluences in Milwaukee and Waukesha, as he thought, he was offered and he refused the Danish mission. But he accepted the consul-generalship at Mon- treal, after the death of Joshua R. Giddings at that post, and resigned it be- fore the end of the Johnson administration. His latest successor in Con- gress. Henry Allen Cooper, of Racine, was born at Spring Prairie (a son of Dr. Joel H. Cooper), and has served continuously from 1893. Experience Estabrook. of Geneva, went to Nebraska, and in 1859-claimed a seat in Con- gress as territorial delegate, but was not seated.
Eleazar Wakeley, of Whitewater, went to Omaha, and became a federal judge. Alanson HI. Barnes, of Delavan. by General Grant's appointment. was for four years a judge of the territorial court of Dakota. Alfred D. Thomas, his son-in-law, was appointed in 1890 as judge of the federal district court of North Dakota. Arthur Loomis Sanborn, now federal judge for the western district of Wisconsin, was appointed in 1905. His boyhood and youth were passed at Lake Geneva. He came in 1869 to Elkhorn as assistant to Register Noyes, whom he succeeded in office. Ilaving in his leisure hours grounded himself thoroughly in the principles of ancient and modern law, he was admitted to practice nearly at the close of his four years as a county officer. At the end of his term he went to Madison, where he formed most advantageous professional connections and passed readily into the higher practice of his profession.
George Gale was a pioneer lawyer at Elkhorn, and about 1855 again a pioneer of Trempealeau county, where he founded the village of Galesville.
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His new home was in the sixth judicial circuit and he soon became its judge. Both at Elkhorn and at Galesville he was a pioneer editor and publisher. Like Chancellor Walworth, be compiled a genealogy of his family. William Penn Lyon came in his boyhood to Hudson, served his town as justice of the peace, removed to Racine, became successively district attorney, judge for the circuit, associate justice, and chief justice of the supreme court. Al- phonso G. Kellam studied law at Elkhorn, practiced at Delavan, served in the Civil war as captain and as major, went to South Dakota. and became the first chief justice of the supreme court of that state.
George Wilbur Peck, governor of Wisconsin, 1891-95, was for some years a printer at Delavan and at Whitewater. Butler G. Noble, of White- water, was elected lieutenant-governor over Dr. Alexander S. Palmer, of Geneva, in 1859. Wyman Spooner was twice speaker of the Assembly, hav- ing been sent in 1862 to the state Senate, he became its president, and the death of Governor Harvey made him acting lieutenant-governor, to which post he was twice elected by the people. The first man who served Wis- consin as its secretary of state was Thomas M. McHugh, of Delavan, son of Rev. Stephen McHugh of the Episcopal clergy, who was also a resident of the county. Secretary McHugh had served the last territorial Assembly as chief clerk of the Council. He was educated and able, but neither at the bar nor elsewhere ever quite fulfilled the hope of his friends. Samuel D. Hastings had moved from Geneva to Trempealeau county a short time before his election as state treasurer in 1857, which place he held for four terms. He afterward served the Prohibitionist party as one of its candidates for some high place, for him not in that way attainable. Experience Estabrook, while yet of Gene- va, served from 1852 to 1854 as attorney-general. Stephen S. Barlow, of Delavan, went to Sauk county and thence to the same office, 1870-1874. Capt. Almerin Gillette, of Hudson, and of the Twentieth Wisconsin Infantry, went to Kansas, where he became railway commissioner. Orville T. Bright, as boy and young man, lived in that part of the town of Geneva which lies near- est Elkhorn. After a term as county superintendent of schools he went to Chicago where he was for many years city superintendent. Since 1903 Charles P. Cary has been in continuous service as state superintendent of public instruction. He was elected from Delavan, where he was then chief officer of the state's school for the deaf.
The first constitutional convention of Wisconsin met October 5. 1846. and adjourned December 10, 1846. Its work was rejected at the election held April 5, 1847, by 6,000 majority. The vote of this county was: For. 984: against, 2,027. The second convention met December 15, 1847, and ad-
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journed February 1, 1848. At the election, March 13, 1848, its work was adopted by 10,000 majority. The county's vote was: For, 1,323; against, 574. Walworth's representatives in these conventions were as follows:
FIRST CONVENTION.
Charles Minton Baker, Geneva : William Bell, Walworth : William Berry, Spring Prairie : Joseph Bowker, Delavan; John William Boyd, Linn; Lyman Hunt Seaver, Darien; Josiah Topping, Sharon; Solmous Wakeley, White- water.
SECOND CONVENTION.
Experience Estabrook, Geneva : George Gale, Elkhorn; James Harring- ton, Spring Prairie : Augustus Caesar Kinne, Sugar Creek : Hollis Latham, Elkhorn ; Dr. Ezra Ames Mulford, Walworth.
It has been told that the first constitution was rejected for causes too complex for easily explaining. This may be true, but there was and is a gen- eral impression that the principal cause lay in article X, section 1, the whole text of which was: "There shall be no bank of issue within this state." The six other sections were more specific in terms, but were of like import. Article XI, sections 4 and 5, of the constitution adopted, in effect, referred the ques- tion of bank to popular vote. In November, 1851, this county voted with the rest of the state to permit banks of issue by 2,054 yeas to 229 nays.
Walworth county has been represented by her own citizens on the bench of the first judicial circuit. first by Wyman Spooner of Elkhorn, whom Gov- ernor Farwell appointed in 1853, Judge Whiton having become chief justice of the supreme court, and he held the fall term of court in each county of the circuit. At the November election James R. Doolittle, of Racine, defeated Judge Spooner as a candidate for the rest of the unexpired term. On Judge Lyon's transference from the circuit bench to that of the higher court, Robert Harkness, of Elkhorn, succeeded, and his own resignation, in March, 1875. opened the way to John Theodore Wentworth. of Geneva, who was elected in April and held the June term of court for that year. He removed to Racine and was rechosen in 1877 and served until January, 1884, having been de- feated by John Bradley Winslow. now chief justice of the supreme court
In the territorial period judges of probate were appointed. Under state government county judges are chosen at April elections for terms of four years, beginning first Monday of January following. The dates shown in the several official lists are term-beginnings.
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PROBATE JUDGES.
Joseph Griffin
Geneva.
. June 4. 1840
John Fox Potter
East Troy.
March 26, 1842
William Cheney Allen
Delavan . .June 24. 1843
Wyman Spooner
. Elkhorn
January 26. 1847
COUNTY JUDGES.
William Cheney Allen
Delavan
. January 7. 1850
Lyman Cowdery
Elkhorn
January 14. 1856
John Fox Potter
East Troy .June 2, 1856
Peter Golder.
Elkhorn April 30, 1857
Jaynes Bailey Wheeler
Elkhorn
January 4. 1886
Jay Forrest Lyon.
Elkhorn
January 23. 1899
Judge Allen having resigned. Governor Barstow appointed Mr. Cow- dery. Mr. Potter was elected in April for the rest of Allen's term: but his own election in November to Congress made another soon-following change. Judge Golder had served nearly twenty-nine years, when his loss of hearing compelled his retirement. Judge Wheeler resigned and went to his old home at or near Rutland, Vermont, and Governor Schofield's appointment, with three elections for full terms, have prolonged Judge Lyon's tenure of this now more than ever before important office to January, 1914.
COURT COMMISSIONERS.
Court commissioners have been appointed by the several circuit judges, but the record of these officers is not found for the period previous to 1867. A few names are mentioned incidentally in other records, and these are in- cluded without exact date of the terms: William C. Allen, 1869: Charles M. Baker, Manson H. Barnes, 1861: Dwight Bennett Barnes. 1893: Pitt Noble Cravath, 1801: Prosper Cravath. between 1862 and 1875: Christo- pher Douglass, 1842: George Gale, 1842: Peter Golder, 1856: Charles E. Griffin, 1866: Henry Heady, between 1875 and 1892: Robert Holley. 1841 : Joseph F. Lyon, between 1884 and 1893: Silas W. Menzie, between 1870 and 1885: Henry O. Montague, 1861: James Simmons, between 1871 and 1893:
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Alfred S. Spooner, between 1872 and 1803: Ernest L. von Suessmilch, 1895: Charles B. Sumner. 1891; Solmous Wakeley, 1861; John T. Wentworth, 1863: Albert T. Wheeler. 1861.
State and county officers are elected in November for a term beginning the first Monday of January following.
STATE SENATORS.
John William Boyd Linn 1848-9. 1858-9
George Gale . Elkhorn
1850-1
Eleazar Wakeley. Whitewater 1852-5
Dr. Jesse Carr Mills Elkhorn 1856-7
*Dr. Oscar F. Bartlett . East Troy 1860-1
Wyman Spooner. Elkhorn
1862-3
Newton M. Littlejohn.
Whitewater 1864-9
Samuel Pratt Spring Prairie 1870-3
Thompson Dimock Weeks Whitewater 1871-5. 1803-6
Asahel Farr Kenosha
1876-7
*Dr. Benoni Orrin Reynolds. Lake Geneva
1878-0
* Joseph Very Quarles Kenosha
1880-1
*Charles Palmetier
Lake Geneva
1882-4
Walter S. Maxwell.
Kenosha.
1885-8
Dr. James Constant Reynolds Lake Geneva 1880-02
Albert Solliday Watertown 1807-8
John Harrison Harris Elkhorn 1800-1902
Zadock Pratt Beach
Whitewater
1003-6
John .\. Hazelwood
Jefferson 1907-10
Charles . \. Snover Jefferson 1911-14
The constitutional amendment of 1882, making legislative sessions hi- ennial and elections for state and county offices fall in even-numbered years. added a year to terms of all such officers as were chosen in the previous year. There was no legislative session for 1884. Two apportionments between 1890 and 1900 changed the number of this senate district from even to odd and thus Mr. Solliday sat in but one session for the joint district. Drs. B. (). and J. C. Reynolds are respectively father and son. Names marked' * are of soldiers of the Civil war, who are so denoted in all the following official lists.
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MEMBERS OF ASSEMBLY.
Abell, Alfred H. Geneva 1877
Aldrich, Alma Montgomery.
Spring Prairie 1878
*Allen, Dwight Sidney. Linn . 1889
Allen, George . Linn
1855
Allen, George Rue Bloomfield
1880
Allen, Lucius .
Spring Prairie 1864
Allen. William Cheney Delavan
1866-7
Allen, William P.
Sharon
1854
Arnold, Fayette P
Sharon 1862
Babcock, Alender O
East Troy
1850
Baker, James
East Troy
1858
Barlow, Stephen Steele
Delavan
1852
Barnes, Dwight Bennett
Delavan
1880-I
*Bartlett, Dr. Oscar F
East Troy
1853-4
Bell, John Lafayette
1853
Benson, Schuyler Ward Bloomfield
1861
*Blanchard, Dr. Caleb Sly
East Troy
1880
*Boyce. Dr. Hilton W Geneva
1862
*Brownson, John W Sharon
1882
Buckbee, Francis A . Geneva
1867-1874
Bunker, Nathaniel Mead.
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