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Third District -Towns of Black Earth, Mazomanie, Vermont, Blue Mounds, Perry. Prim- rose, Montrose, Oregon and Springdale, and villages of Oregon and Mazomanie. Popula- tion, 1885 -10,390.
PETER O. BAKER (Rep.), of Primrose, post-office address Mount Vernon, was born in Hallingdal, Norway, June 9, 1838; received a common school education, and is by occupa- tion a farmer and carpenter. Came to Wisconsin with his mother in 1550, and settled first in the town of Pleasant Springs, Dane county ; removed in 1852 to Deerfield, thence in :533 to the town of Dunn, thence in 1961 to New Glarus, Green county, where be married Novem- ber 14, of the same year, Miss Julia Johnson, a native of Norway; returned again to Dane county in the fall of 1862; resided in Montrose two years, and settled in Primrose in 193; was first elected constable in 1867, and held various local offices, serving a number of years as town supervisor and justice of the peace; was elected chairman of the town of Primrose in 1879, and re-elected in 1850, '81, '82, '53, 'S1, '85, '86. '87 and 'ss; has served ten years on the committee of the county board on claims and expenditures; is one of the directors of the Primrose Fire Insurance Company, which position he has held fourteen years Was elected member of assembly in 15ss, receiving 1,282 votes against 851 for C. E. Roe, prohibitionist and 311 for A. F. Gramm, democrat.
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Fourth District -Towns of Vienna. Windsor. Burke. Bristol. York, Sun Prairie. Medina, Cottage Grove, Deerfield. Christiana and village of Sun Prairie. Population, 1585-13,909.
HENRY G. KLINEFELTER (Rep.), of Nora, Dane county, was born in Marion county, Ohio, October 22. 1813: received a common school education, and attended the high school in Mukwanago, Waukesha county, one year; is by profession a farmer and tobacco buyer; came to Wisconsin in 1846 and settled in Cottage Grove, Dane county; has been justice of the peace and has held various local offices. Enlisted in Co. D, seventh regiment Wisconsin volunteer infantry, September, 1861, at the age of seventeen, and was discharged in Sep- tember, 1865; was commissioned second lieutenant of Co. F, fifty-first regiment, also first lieutenant and quartermaster of the same regiment; participated in the battles of Rappa- hannock Station, Gainesville, Second Bull Run, South Mountain. Antietam, Fredericksburg, Fitz Hugh's Crossing, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Mine Run, Wilderness, Petersburg, Weldon Railroad, Hatcher's Run and Spottsylvania. Was elected to the assembly in 1553, receiving 1,904 votes against 920 votes for H. O. Tealy, democrat, and 540 votes for P. N. Johnson, prohibitionist.
Dodge County.
First District -The towns of Beaver Dam, Calamus, Clyman, Elba, Emmett Lowell. Port- land, Shields, Westford, 5th and 6th wards city of Watertown, and the city of Beaver Dam, in the county of Dodge. Population , 1885 - 19, 172.
THOMAS F. SOLON (Dem.), of Richwood, Dodge county, was born in Shields, Dodge county, Wis., June 30, 1853; received a common school and academic education: is a real estate dealer by occupation: commenced teaching school at the age of sixteen; followed the profession for seven years: was elected town clerk of Shields (at the age of twenty-one) in 1875; again in 1876; engaged in the carriage business in 1877; employed as general traveling salesman for a Cincinnati carrriage firm, in 1973: promoted to superin- tendent of salesmen of this state for same firm in 1829; engaged in the general merchan- dise business in 1880; was appointed postmaster of Richwood. Dodge county, same year; held this office when elected to the assembly; established the Posey creamery in 1551; en- gaged in real estate in northern Wisconsin in 1857: was elected member of assembly for 188, and 1888, and re-elected in 1888 for two years, receiving 2, 142 votes, against 1, 403 votes for Ed. Kernan, republican, and 139 votes for W. W. Williams, prohibitionist.
Second District - The towns of Burnett, Chester. Fox Lake. Leroy, Lomira and Trenton, and the south ward of the city of Waupun and the east ward of the village of Randolph. · Population, 1885 - 9, 851.
JOHN STODDART (Dem.), of Fox Lake, was born at Kirkcaldy. Fifeshire. Scotland, March 30, 1842: received a common school education, and is by occupation a farmer: came to Wisconsin in 1856 and settled at Alto, Fond du Lac county: resided in Canada, from May, 1849 until July, 1856; has been school district clerk since 1877, chairman of the town and village of Fox Lake in 1836; was elected to the assembly in 1858 for two years, receiving 1,131 votes, against 941 votes for C. E. Hooker, republican, and 49 for Ben. Sawyer, prohf- bitionist.
Third District -The towns of Ashippun, Herman, Hubbard, Hustisford. Lebanon, Oak Grove, Rubicon, Theresa and Williamstown. Population, 1853 -17,310.
JOHN A. BARNEY (Dem.), of Mayville. Dodge county, was born in Lenox, Madison county, New York, June 14, 1840; was educated at common and private schools; studied law two years before entering the army, but never engaged in the practice; is not in active business at present; came to Wisconsin in 1817 and settled at Mayville: has served as clerk and chairman of town board, and clerk and president of Mayville : appointed postmaster by President Johnson, and resigned upon Grant's election; was county superintendent of schools for the east district of Dodge county for four years ending December 31. 15.4: repro- sented Dodge county in the state senate in 1875 and 1876; clerk of the committee on war claims at Washington during the 46th congress; is now justice of the peace, alderman of the third ward of the city of Mayville, and secretary of the Dodge County Soldiers' Rellet Association. He enlisted as a private in company B, Tenth Regiment Wisconsin Volun- teers in 1861; was with that regiment in its campaign in Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia, participating in all the engagements until he lost an arm at the battle of Chic- amauga, where he was also taken prisoner; was commissioned captain by brevet by Gov. Fairchild for meritorious services rendered at Perryville and Chickamauga. Was elected to the assembly in 1858 for two years, receiving 2,435 votes against 1.0.2 votes for D. IL Roberts, republican.
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Door County.
Population, 1855 - 15,552.
HANS JOHNSON (Rep.), of Newport, Door county, was born in Denmark, May 3, 1546; received a common school education in Denmark, and is by occupation a merchant: came to Wisconsin in 1809 and settled in the town of Liberty Grove, in 1871; came to the United States in 1865, to Manistee, Mich., and worked as a common laborer, and in Wisconsin, up to 1881, when he started a general store; has been justice of the peace one year, viz., 1857, and school treasurer eight years, and postmaster at Newport for five years: was elected to the assembly in 1888 for two years, receiving 1,562 votes against 1,153 votes for F. J. Colig- non, democrat, and 50 votes for George Walker, prohibitionist.
Dunn County.
Population, 1885- 21,921.
STEWART J. BAILEY (Rep.), of Menomonie, Dunn county, was born in Miami county, Indiana, February 13, 1838; received a common school education, and is by occupation a con- tractor and builder; came to Wisconsin in 1868 and settled at Menomonie, and has resided there ever since; has served in the Menomonie city council from April 10, 1584. to April 10, 1886; was secretary of the Soldiers' Relief Commission for Dunn county for 1558. Served from September 10, 1361, to October 20, 1861, in Co. G. 9th Ill. Cav .: enlisted as private and promoted to sergeant and regimental color-sergeant ; was with the regiment in all its raids and engagements, and was wounded in the battle of Okolona, Mississippi, February 22, 1564; has also served five years in the Wisconsin National Guards. Was elected to the assembly In 1888 for two years, receiving 2,260 votes, against 1,503 votes for John J. Carter, demo- crat, and 207 votes for Thomas Dickson, prohibitionist.
Eau Claire County.
First District - The city of Eau Claire. Population, 1855 -21,608.
HOBART M. STOCKING (Rep.), of Eau Claire, was born in Canton, St. Lawrence county, N. Y., April 28, 1846; was educated in the common schools and Galesville University, round- ing up with a full apprenticeship in a printing office: is by occupation a lumberman; came to Wisconsin in 1848 and settled at Elkhorn. then moved to Grand Rapids, Michigan, in 1843; returned to Wisconsin in 1857 and went to Eau Claire in 1864. and in company with his brother, J. B. Stocking, assumed the proprietorship of the Eau Claire Free Press, and con- tinued its publication until Jannary 1, 1870; was captain of Co. G, 46th Regt. Wis. Vol. Inf., from March 13, 1865, until January 9, 1SC6, when he was mustered out with his company : was receiver of the United States Land Office at Eau Claire, Wis., from May, 1800, to June, 18.3. Represented Eau Claire in the assembly in 1876. and the city of Eau Claire in 1558, receiving 1,807 votes, against 1,383 votes for W. F. Bailey, democrat; 229 votes for D. P. Simons, prohibitionist, and 112 votes for A. B. Willey, union labor.
Second District -The town of Bridge Creek, Brunswick. Clear Creek, Drammen. Fairchild, Ludington, Otter Creek, Pleasant Valley, Seymour, U'uion, Washington, Lincoln, and city of Augusta. Population, 1885 - 13, 121.
GEORGE F. CALDWELL (Rep.), of the town of Otter Creek. Eau Claire county (posi- office, Augusta), was born in Chautauqua county, N. Y .: received a common school educa- tion; is by occupation a farmer: came to Wisconsin ia 1518, settled in the county of Wal- worth where he resided three or four years; after which time removed with parents to Winnebago county, near the city of Oshkosh, where he resided until the outbreak of the civil war. In November, 1803, enlisted in Company D. 394 Wis. Infantry, Col. Howe com- manding, at the siege of Atlanta. In spring of 1565 was transferred to Co. D. 16th Wis. Inft., promoted to corporal, mustered out the following July. In the fall of 1st, mored to Olmstead county, Minn., where he resided two years: movel to Winona county, when he lived one year, thence to the town of Otter Creek, Eau Claire county, in February, 1863, where he has since resided. Present residence, city of Augusta. Has held various local offices; served five years as side supervisor, beginning with the year 15:3; elected chair- man of his town seven years, 1890, '81 '82, 53, '84, 'ai, '87. '88; at present president of Eau Claire County "Farmers' Alliance; " was elected member of assembly in les meriting 1,265 votes against 1,019 for G. E. Barta, democrat, and 213 for Washington Churchill, pro- hibitionist.
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Fond du Lac County.
First District -The towns of Alto, Eldorado, Friendship, Lamartine, Metomen. Pepin, Rosendale, Springvale and Waupun, the city of Ripon, and the north ward of the city of Waupun. Population, 1885 - 16,551.
CHARLES F. SIMMONS (Rep,), of Ripon, Fond du Lac county, was born in the town of Nekimi, Winnebago county, March 17, 1558; received his education at the Oshkosh High School and Oshkosh Business College, and graduated at the Oshkosh Business College in 1877; is by occupation a farmer; resided in the town of Nekimi, Winnebago county, until 1880, when he went to Rosendale, Fond du Lac county, where he has ever since resided; has held various town offices; elected chairman of the town of Rosendale in 1985. and was elected without opposition in 1887 and 1SS3; elected to the assembly in 1533, for two years, receiving 1,884 votes against 1,389 votes for Henry De Groot, democrat, and 152 votes for Frank Collins, prohibitionist.
Second District -The towns of Byron, Empire, Fond du Lac and Oakfield, and the city of Fond du Lac. Population. 1883 - 17,621.
JAMES WILLIAM WATSON (Dem.), of Fond du Lac, Wis., was born in Roxburg- shire, Scotland, February 14, 1819; emigrated to the United States in 1862, locating in Fond du Lac county, where he has ever since resided: received a common school educa- tion. Passed a satisfactory examination for admission to the bar as an attorney-at-law, before the state board of examiners, in August, 1853. Has held various town offices. Is at present a member of the overflow commissioners for the county of Fond du Lac; was elected clerk of the circuit and county courts of said county in 1554: was re-elected in 1856, and was elected member of the assembly in 1858, for the session of 1880, receiving 1.515 votes, against 1,803 votes for W. S. Russell, republican; 77 votes for J. F. Susan, prohibition- ist, and 58 votes for C. A. Doty, union labor.
Third District -The towns of Ashford, Auburn, Calumet, Eden. Forest, Marshfield, Os. ceola and Taycheedah. Population, 1855 - 12,650.
PETER LOEHR (Dem.), of Dotyville, Fond du Lac county, was born in Thalheim. Nas- Bau, Germany, March 7, 1831; received a common school education in Germany, and is by occupation a farmer; came to Wisconsin in 1855, and settled in Milwaukee, and to Doty- ville in 1858; was in Pennsylvania in 1553 and 1854; has held several local offices, being chairman of the town board for the years 1873, 67, 73. 81, 82, 87 and SS: was elected to the as- sembly in 1888, for two years, receiving 1,742 votes against 726 votes for Henry Stannard, republican, and 22 votes for G. S. Thompson, prohibitionist.
Grant County.
First District - The towns of Clifton. Ellenboro. Harrison. Hazel Green. Jameston, Lima Paris. Platteville and Smelser. Population, 1955-12,855.
JAMES B. McCOY (Rep.), of Platteville. Wis., was born at Peoria. Ill., April 22, 1830; - was educated in the common school in Illinois, and finished at Platteville in Platteville Academy : is by occupation a dealer in live stock; came to Wisconsin in 156) and settled at Platteville; was elected sheriff of Grant county in 1574 and held that office two years; en- listed as a private Angust 22, 1562, in Co. E. 25th Wis. Vol. Inf., was promoted to ist lieut. March, 1864: was engaged in the siege of Vicksburg, and battles of Resaca. Kenesiw Mountain, and the several battles in and about Atlanta, Ga., also with Sherman on his march to the sea; was elected member of the assembly in 150 for two years and re-elected in 1888 for two years, receiving 1,381 votes against 1,218 votes for Arthur Doyle, democrat, and 135 votes for Nadab Eastman, prohibitionist.
Second District - The towns of Bestown, Bloomington, Cassville, Glen Haven, Lancaster, Liberty, Little Grant, Potosi and Waterloo. Population, 1555 -12.752
REUBEN B. SHOWALTER (Rep.), of Lancaster, Grant county, was boru in Fayette county, Pa., June 3, 1842; received a common school education, and is by exemption a superintendent of asylum and poor house; caine to Wisconsin in the fall of 14) an i tried at Lancaster; removed to Richland county in 1858: back to Lancaster in 1535; to Beetown In 1850; returned to Lancaster in the spring of 1872 as overweer of the poorhien », which position he resigned in 1853; March 15, 15%), was appointed superintendent of the Grant county insane asylum, and re-appointed overseer of the poorhouse, which position le re signed Jan. 1, 1659; enlisted as a private lu Co. C. 31 Wis, Cav . participating in all the en. gagements and rais of the regiment during the last year of its service; was elected
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member of the assembly in 1856. and re-elected in 1588, receiving 1,333 votes, against 1,250 votes, for W. J. McCoy, democrat: 92 votes, for Wm. B. Bennett, prohibitionist, and 53 votes for, Andrew Meyer, union labor.
Third District - The towns of Castle Rock, Boscobel, Fennimore, Hickory Grove. Marion, Millville, Mt. Hope, Mt. Ida. Muscoda, Patch Grove, Watertown. Wingville, Woodman and Wyalusing. Population, 1885-11,667.
A. C. V. ELSTON (Rep.), of Muscoda, Grant county, was born in Unionville, Orange county, New York, September 9, 1845; received a high school and academic education and graduated from the Commercial College, Chicago, Ill., in 1863; is by profession and occupa- tion a banker, merchant and farmer; came to Wisconsin in 1555 and settled at Muscoda, where he has ever since resided: engaged in mercantile business in 1867 with P. B. Mcintyre," and still doing banking and mercantile business under the firm name of Mcintyre, Elston & Co .; was elected to the assembly in 1888 for two years. reciving 1,423 votes against 958 votes for Morton Eastman, democrat; 150 votes for E. Carrington, prohibitionist, and one vote for - Cory, union labor.
Green County (South).
The towns of Cadiz, Clarno, Jefferson, Spring Grove, Jordan, Monroe. Sylvester and De- catur and the city of Monroe. Population, 1565 - 14.537.
PHILIP ALLEN (Rep.), of Browntown, Green county, was born in Washington town- ship, Monroe county, Ohio, December 2, 1832: received a common school and a partial high school education; is by occupation a farmer; came to Wisconsin first in 1855, and after traveling over several states of the Union settled in Green county, Wisconsin. in 1857, where he has resided ever since; lived in Elkhart county, Indiana, from December. 1550, until near the close of the following year; taught common school a number of terms: has served as town superintendent of schools, town clerk, chairman of the town board of supervisors two terms; was elected member of the present assembly, receiving 1,621 votes against 1,324 votes for W. Mitchell, democrat; 231 votes for W. Atherton, prohibitionist, and 168 votes for F. Smock, labor candidate.
Green and part La Fayette Counties.
The towns of Brooklyn, Exeter, New Glarus, York, Albany. Mt. Pleasant, Washington and Adams in the county of Green, and the towns of Argyle. Wiota, Darlington. Willow Springs, Fayette and Blanchard in La Fayette county. Population, 1555-16. 558.
CHARLES F. OSBORN (Rep.), of Darlington, was born in Ashtabula, Ohio, March 16, 1847; was educated in the common schools at Darlington, and by profession a lawyer: came with his father to Darlington in 1851; was county judge of La Fayette county from 1842 to 1886, and has been city attorney and mayor of Darlington; was elected to the assembly in 1888 for two years, receiving 2, 163 votes against 1. 616 votes for John Smith, democrat; 333 votes for F. Lambert, prohibitionist: 58 votes for Will C. Hodge, union labor; S3 votes for Philip Allen, and 1 vote for H. H. Gray.
Green Lake County. Population, 1855 - 16, 008.
E. C. SMITH (Dem.), of Markesan, was born in the town of Green Lake, Green Lake county, December 28, 1852: received a common school and business college education, and is by occupation a farmer; was clerk of the town of Green Lake in 1991-S and 1553, and elected sheriff of Green Lake county in 1884; was elected to the assembly in 18ss, for two years receiving 1,602 votes against 1,531 votes for H. B. Lowe, republican, and 125 votes for Ira E. Smith, prohibitionist.
Iowa County.
First District -The towns of Arena, Moscow, Mineral Point, Ridgeway and Waldwick, and the city of Mineral Point. Population, 1855 - 10, 123.
NICHOLAS T. MARTIN (Rep.), of Mineral Point, was born in Mineral Point, Iowa county, Wis., September 26, 1813; received a graded city high school education, anife br occupation a hardware merchant: lived five years at Madison, from 1965 to 15,0; was clerk in the state treasury department under Samuel D. Hastings one year, and also clerk in the secretary of state's oflee four years under T. S. Allen. secretary of state; was elected to the assembly in 1558 for two years, receiving 1,002 rotes against 9,3 votes for Goorge Jeuck. democrat, and 230 votes for U'riah James, prohibitionist.
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Second District - The towns of Clyde, Dodgeville, Eden. Highland, Linden, Mifflin, Pu- laski and Wyoming. Population, 1585- 12,677.
MICHAEL JOHN BENNETT (Rep.), of Pine Knot, Iowa county, was born in the town of Clyde, Iowa county, Wis .. January 8, 1860: received a common and high school education; is a farmer and school teacher by profession; was chosen town clerk of his town in 1865, and again in 1886; was elected member of the assembly for 1587 and 1888, and was re-elected in 1888 for two years, receiving 1,413 votes, against 1,283 votes for J. C. Comfort, democrat, and 203 votes for Charles Weston, prohibitionist.
Jackson County.
Population, 1885 - 15,902.
THOMAS B. MILLS (Rep.), of Millston, was born in the town of Manchester, Jackson county, Wisconsin, October 12, 1857; received a common school and academic education; is by occupation a lumberman; was chairman of the town board from 1582 to 1884, and town treasurer in 1886; lived on a farm until 16 years of age; learned telegraphy and railway work, which he followed until 21 years old; then took the scientific course in Col. John G. McMynn's academy in Racine; graduated in June, 1851, since which time he has been en- gaged in the lumber and pine land business; has been chairman of the town board since 1866, and chairman of the county board of supervisors two terms; was elected member of assembly in 1881, and again in 1886, receiving 1,505 votes, against 1,162 votes for George W. Lewis, democrat, and 166 votes for F. A. Robertson, prohibitionist; was elected speaker for the thirty-eighth assembly, receiving 56 votes, against 31 votes for John Winans, 5 votes for Ben. C. Garside, 1 for John Luchsinger, 1 for Ed. Keogh and 1 for Adam Apple. Was re- elected to the assembly in 1883, receiving 2,033 votto, against 1,277 votes for Jacob A. Sechler, democrat; was also elected speaker in the thirty-ninth assembly, receiving 71 votes, against 29 votes for C. R. Feld.
Jefferson County.
First District - The towns of Concord, Farmington, Ixonia, Milford, Waterloo, Watertown. the village of Waterloo, and the first, second, third, fourth and seventh wards of the city of Watertown. Population, 1885-16,604.
CARL R. FELD (Dem.), of Watertown, was born at Watertown, Wisconsin, December 14, 1858, and has always resided in the state: received a collegiate education, and was grad- uated from Union College of Law, of Chicago; is a lawyer by profession; has been court commissioner for Jefferson county since May, 1883, and has held no other public office of any kind until his election to the assembly in 1885; was re-elected to the assembly in 1586, and again in 1888, receiving 2,256 votes. The other parties made no nomination.
Second District - The towns of Ashland, Cold Spring, Hebron, Jefferson, Koshkonong. Lake Mills, Oakland, Palmyra, Sullivan and Sumner. Population, 1853-17,502.
MARK CURTIS (Rep.), of Hebron, Jefferson county, was born in the town of Chelsea, Orange county, Vermont, December 11, 1530; received a common school education. and is engaged in general business, came to Wisconsin in 1815, and settled at Curtis JLill, town of Jefferson, Jefferson county ; resided in Whitewater from 1859 to 1803. and in the town of Hebron twenty-three years; was town superintendent of schools of Hebron in 1555: town clerk fifteen years, justice of the peace twenty years, secretary of the Jefferson County Old Settlers' Society five years; was elected to the assembly in 188, for two years, receiving 2,051 votes against 1,901 votes for S. A. Craig, democrat, and 167 votes for Robert Fargo, prohibitionist.
Juneau County. Population, 1853 - 17,024.
JOSEPH WEEKS BABCOCK (Rep.), of Necedah, was born at Swanton Falls, Vermont March 6, 1850; received a common school education, at Cedar Falls and Mount Vernon. Iowa; is by occupation a lumberman; came to Wisconsin in 1851, and settled at Nechinh; resided on a farm in Butler county, Iowa, from 1858 to 1861; in Cedar Falls, Iowa, from 1861 to 1872, and in Dubuque, Iowa, from 1572 to 1891; has been chairman of the town of Necedalı and president of the village of Necedah: was elected to the assembly in 1558, for two years, receiving 2, 12 votes against 1,303 votes for F. Winsor, democrat, and 152 votes for W. G. Boorman, prohibitionist.
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Kenosha County.
Population, 1855-14,137.
DWIGHT L. BURGESS (Rep.), of Salem, Kenosha county, was born at Brighton, Ke- nosha, December 19, 1541; received a common school education: also attended Commercial College at Poughkeepsie, N. Y .; is a farmer: spent one winter. 1864-65 in Little Rock, Ar- kansas; was chairman of the town board of Brighton in 1832. also in 1858; chosen president of the Kenosha County Old Settlers' Club, in 1888; also served six months in the quarter- master's employ, in Arkansas; was elected to the assembly in 1558, receiving 1,730 votes, against 1,647 votes, for Walter J. Fox, and 89 votes, for Charles B. Gaines, prohibitionist.
Kewaunee County. (Except towns of Franklin and Carlton.)
Population, 1885-13,786.
JOSEPH WERY (Dem.), of Darbellay, Kewaunee county, was born in Belgium, Sep- tember 29, 1836; received a common school education in Belgium, and is by occupation a farmer and dealer in general merchandise; came to Wisconsin in 1555, and settled in Dar- bellay, where he has ever since resided; was member of the county board in 1569, '70, '71, '73, '74 and '75; sheriff of Kewaunee county in 1877 and 'S, and town clerk and justice of the peace from 1818 to the present time; elected to assembly in 1858 for two years, receiving 1,310 votes, against 1,001 votes, for Henry Runke, republican.
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