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FRANK L. FRASER (Rep.), of Lake Beulah, Walworth county, was born in Sacra- mento county, California, September 29, 1854; received education at Rochester seminary and partial course in the State Normal School at Whitewater; came with his parents to Wisconsin in 1890 and settled at East Troy, Walworth county; lived in Racine from 1874 to 1877; is by occupation a farmer; read law in Racine and admitted to practice in 1877; was member of county board of Walworth county for the years 1889, 1890 and 1892; was elected to the assembly in 1892, receiving 1,771 votes, against 1,089 for August Wilmer, dem- ocrat, and 220 for Albert D. Whitmore, prohibitionist.
Second District .- Towns of Darien. Delavan, Geneva, Lyons, Sharon, Linn, Walworth, Bloomfield and the city of Lake Geneva. Population in 1890-13, 982.
WILLIAM AVERY COCHRANE (Rep.), of Delavan, Walworth county, was born in Ripley, Chautauqua county, New York, January 8, 1842; came to Wisconsin in 1854; re- ceived education in the public schools of New York and Beloit, Wis., and graduated from Beloit college in full classical course in 1867; enlisted in the Fortieth Wisconsin Infantry
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Volunteers, May 11, 1864, sharing in the skirmishes and guard duty; is by occupation a teacher; entered as teacher in the Delavan State School for the Deaf in September, 1857, where he taught until September, 1870; then he entered the Michigan Institute, located at Flint, and resided there until 1875; he then re-entered the State school at Delavan, Sep- tember, 1875, and has since resided there; was elected member of the school board of Delavan in July, 1880, and has continued in that position since; was alderman of Delavan in 1882, 1885 and 1890; in 1892 was elected to the assembly, receiving 2,090 votes, against 1,044 cast for J. H. Goodrich, democrat, and 300 for L. D. Tracy, prohibitionist.
Washington County.
Population in 1890-22,751.
AUGUST KONRAD (Dem.), of Hartford, in said county, was born in Milwaukee, Septem- ber 17th, 1849, and received a common school education; is by occupation a grain dealer; was member of the county board from 1883-1888, inclusive, and in 1890; was elected mem- ber of the assembly in 1890 and re-elected in 1892, receiving 2,533 votes against 1,780 for William H. Froehlich, republican.
Waukesha County.
First District .- The towns of Brookfield, Menomonee, Muskego, New Berlin, Vernon, Wau- kesha, and the village of Waukesha. Population in 1890-16,106.
JOHN SCHMIDT (Dem.), of Fess Corners, Waukesha county, was born in Prussia (vil- lage of Wirschweiler) April 3, 1833; was educated in the common schools; came to Wiscon- sin in 1846 and settled in Waukesha county, where he has since resided; is by occupation a farmer; was town treasurer in 1857 and 1858; assessor from 1860 to 1876; chairman of the town board in 1878-1880, 1888-1891, and in 1892; was elected to the assembly in 1864, 1880 and again in 1892, receiving in the last election 1,739 votes to 1,531 for Perry Grace, republican, and 139 for H. S. Haylett.
Second District .- The towns of Delafield, Eagle, Genesee, Merton, Mukwonago, Ottawa, Oconomowoc, Summit, Lisbon and Pewaukee, and the city of Oconomowoc. _ Population in 1890-17,164.
BENJAMIN F. GOSS (Dem.), was born in Lancaster, N. H., April 24, 1823; received a common school and academic education; came to Wisconsin in 1841 and settled on a farm near the village of Pewaukee; was elected to the assembly for the north-east district of Waukesha county for the session of 1855. In the spring of 1855 he left Wisconsin, and in 1857 settled in Kansas, being one of a company who built the mills, laid out and organized the city of Neosho Falls, Kas. In 1861 he enlisted a company for three years' service in the war of the rebellion; was elected captain and served the full term of three years as cap- tain of Company F, Ninth Regiment Kansas Volunteer Cavalry; was in the battles of Cane Hill, Prairie Grove and many smaller engagements. For a considerable part of the time he was stationed with his company on the frontier and rendered hard scouting service. In 1866 he returned to Wisconsin and engaged in the mercantile business at Pewaukee village, where has since resided. In 1892 he was elected to the assembly, receiving 1,968 votes against 1,964 for O. L. Rosencranz, his republican opponent, and 129 for George McKerrow, prohibitionist; has been all his life a student of natural history, giving especial attention to the breeding habits of our birds, and has presented to the Milwaukee public museum, where they are now on display, one of the largest and most valuable collections of the eggs of North American birds in this country.
Waupaca County.
First District .- The towns of Union, Bear Creek, Lebanon, Royalton, Mukwa, Caledonia. Larrabee, Matteson, Little Wolf, city of Clintonville and the First, Second, Fourth and Fifth wards of the city of New London. Population in 1890-13, 577.
DAVID JENNINGS (Dem.), of Northport, Waupaca county, was born at Syracuse, N. Y., November 15. 1836; received his education in common school at Silver Creek; came to Wisconsin in 1857 and settled in the town of Hortonia, Outagamie county; removed thence to Northport in 1866, and has there resided since; is a dealer in real estate and lumberman;
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was chairman of the town of Mukwa ten terms; was democratic candidate for presidentlal elector in 1884; member of assembly in 1890, again elected in 1892, receiving 1,483 votes against 1,118 for John Raisler, republican, and 76 for Edward Mather, prohibitionist.
Second District .- The towns of Dupont, Helvetia, St. Lawrence, Waupaca, Lind, Dayton, Farmington, Iola, Scandinavia, Harrison, Wyoming, Fremont, Weyauwega, and the villages of Fremont and Weyauwega, and the city of Waupaca. Population in 1890- 13, 217.
JACOB WIPF (Rep.), was born in Hargen, Canton Zurich, Switzerland, December 15, 1834; received a common school education in that country; came to Wisconsin in 1854 with his parents and settled at Iola, where he has resided ever since; is engaged in lumbering and milling; was town treasurer two terms and chairman of the town board eight terms; served in the 44th Wis. Inft. Volunteers as sergeant of Co. C; was at Nashville with the regiment during the battle, December 15 and 16, 1864; was elected to the assembly in 1888, to represent the second assembly district of Waupaca county, comprising the eastern and northern portion of the county; and was elected again in 1892 to represent the second as- sembly district, comprising the west half of Waupaca county, receiving 2,218 votes against 752 for Albert A. Steiger, democrat, and 223 for S. R. Sherwin, prohibitionist.
Waushara County.
Population in 1890-13,507.
CORNELIUS A. DAVENPORT (Rep), of Auroraville, Waushara county, was born in the town of Antwerp, Jefferson county, New York, July 3, 1843; came to Wisconsin in 1855, settling in town of Nepeuskun, Winnebago county; received a common school education; has resided in Auroraville since 1859, except two years (1885 and 1886) in which he lived in Wautoma; was chairman of town board for 1874 and 1878; sheriff of Waushara county 1885 and 1886; during the civil war of 1861 he served three years as private in Company H. 30th regiment of Wisconsin volunteers, until close of the war; was elected member of the assembly in 1890; re-elected in 1892, receiving 2,113 votes against 768 for Wm. Blader, demo- crat, and 143 for D. W. Cate, prohibitionist.
Winnebago County.
First District .- First, Second, Third and Fourth wards of the city of Oshkosh. Population in 1890-15,776.
GUSTAV S. LUSCHER (Dem.), of Oshkosh, Winnebago county, was born in Oshkosh, February 12, 1856; educated in the common and high schools of that city; is by occupation an insurance agent; was elected to the assembly in 1890 from the 1st district; was re-elected in 1892, receiving in the last election 1, 985 votes, against 1,641 for E. E. Stevens, republican, 72 for F. R. Stewart, people's party, and 57 for E. S. Richmond, prohibitionist.
Second District .- The towns of Clayton, Menasha, Neenah, Oshkosh, Poygan, Vinland, Winchester and Wolf River, and the cities of Neenah and Menasha. Population in 1890- 17,088.
GEORGE DANIELSON (Dem.), of Neenah, Winnebago county, was born at Christiana, Norway, June 14, 1834, and received a common school education in Norway; came to Wis- consin in 1854 and settled at Neenah, residing there till 1856, when he removed to Rock county, returning in 1861; is by occupation a millwright and contractor, also manufacturer of pulp; was elected town treasurer for the town of Neenah in 1872, city treasurer ot Neenah in 1873, 1874, and also in 1877, alderman one term, school ,commissioner two terms and assessor of Neenah one term; was elected to the assembly in 1892, receiving 2,039 votes against 1,701 for Elisha D. Smith, republican, and 49 for Philip Verbeck, pro- hibitionist.
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Third District .- The towns of Algoina, Black Wolf, Nekimi, Omro, Utica, Nepeuskun, Rush ford, Winneconne, the village of Winneconne, and the Fifth and Sixth wards of the city of Oshkosh. Population in 1890-17,233.
FRANK TYLER TUCKER (Rep.), of Omro, in said county, was born in Macon, Lenawee county, Michigan, June 11, 1864; came to Omro, Wisconsin, in 1869; is the son of Dr. E. L. Tucker, lieutenant of Fourth Michigan cavalry, who was killed at Chattanooga, and of Mary F. Tucker, the well-known authoress; received a common and high school education and then attended the Northern Indiana Normal School, from which he graduated in 1886; for one year he was principal of schools at Winneconne and for four years was principal of the high school at Omro; was admitted to the bar in 1888, and intends to make law his profession; has held no other office. His nomination by the republicans was indorsed by the prohibitionists; was elected by 2,372 votes against 1,777 votes for Charles D. Bowman, democrat.
Wood County.
Population in 1890-18,127.
JOHN A. GAYNOR (Dem.), of Grand Rapids, Wood county, was born in county Lang- ford, Ireland, October 1, 1846; came to Wisconsin in 1851, with his parents, and settled near Sussex, in Waukesha county; was educated in the common schools of Waukesha county; graduated in the classical course from the University of Wisconsin; removed to Grand Rapids in 1873; has served several years as member of the board of education, and as mem- ber of the county board from 1876 to 1880, and from 1884 to 1886; served as district attorney for Wood county; was elected to the assembly in 1892, receiving 2,171 votes against 1,833 for Nels Johnson, republican, and 53 for M. O. Patten, prohibitionist; is a be- liever in free trade and in the "single tax" doctrines of Henry George.
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OFFICERS OF THE LEGISLATURE.
OFFICERS OF THE SENATE.
SAMUEL J. SHAFER, of Colby, Clark county, was born in the city of Hamilton, Can- ada, June 6, 1850; in 1854 removed with his parents to the city of Beaver Dam, in Dodge county, where he resided until the summer of 1878, when he removed to Colby, and, with his brother, established The Phonograph, weekly newspaper. He received a common school education and is a journalist by profession; was clerk of the board of education and deputy city clerk in the city of Beaver Dam, has been clerk of the school board at Colby for seven years and was postmaster from 1885 to 1889; was elected chief clerk of the senate as a democrat, receiving 25 votes against 7 votes for Chas. E. Bross, republican.
JOHN B. BECKER, of Juneau, Dodge county, Wisconsin, was born in the town of Her- man, Dodge county, Wisconsin, September 22d, 1864, and received his education in the pub- lic schools. When but a few weeks of age he removed with his parents to Rubicon, Wis., where he resided until 1880, at which time he removed to Juneau. Wis., to accept the posi- tion of turnkey of the Dodge county jail. He served as under sheriff for Dodge county in 1890 and 1891, was elected assessor of the city of Juneau in 1891, and was appointed mar- shal of Juneau in July, 1891, which office he holds at the present time. He was elected sergeant at-arms of the senate as a democrat, receiving 25 votes against 7 for George G. Cox, republican.
OFFICERS OF THE ASSEMBLY.
GEORGE W. PORTH, chief clerk of the assembly, of Milwaukee, Milwaukee county, was born at Milwaukee, January 4, 1857, where he has always resided. Received a com- mon school education. Is by occupation a bookkeeper. Was chief clerk of the board of public works, Milwaukee, from 1877 to 1882, city clerk from 1882 to 1885, and city comp- troller from 1886 to 1890. Was elected chief clerk of the assembly as a democrat, receiving 68 votes, against 32 for Walter L. Hauser, republican, in 1891, and re-elected to the same office in 1893, receiving 55 votes to 43 votes for O. G. Munson, republican.
THEODORE KNAPSTEIN (Dem.), of New London, was born in Prussia, November 12, 1848; received a common school education, and is by occupation a brewer; came to Wis- consin in 1855, and settled at Greenville, Outagamie county; was a member of the village board and afterwards alderman of New London from 1872 to 1884; mayor of the city in 1884, and president of the common council in 1885; was a member of the assembly in 1889, and re-elected in 1890, receiving 2,927 votes against 1,316 for W. D. Ackerman, republican, and 138 for W. D. Boynton, prohibitionist; was elected sergeant-at-arms as a democrat, re- ceiving 56 votes against 43 votes for C. Morse, republican.
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JUSTICES OF THE SUPREME COURT.
WILLIAM P. LYON, chief justice, was born in Chatham, Columbia county, New York, October 28, 1842. He attended common schools until eleven years of age, and then acted as clerk in a small store. Then he attended several terms at select schools. At the age of fifteen he taught district school, and then served as clerk for three years in a store in Albany, New York. In 1841 he came with his father's family and settled in what is now the town of Lyons, Walworth county. In 1844 he entered upon the study of law in the office of George Gale, then a practicing lawyer in Elkhorn. He also read law office of Hon. C. M. Baker. In 1846 he was admitted to the bar and en- tered upon the practice, serving also as justice of the peace. In 1850 he entered upon practice at Burlington, Racine county, and in 1355 removed to Racine. He was dis- trict attorney for Racine county for two terms; was elected to the assembly in 1859 and chosen as its speaker. He was also member of the assembly of 1860, and its speaker. In September, 1861, he entered the military service as captain of Com pany K, 8th Regiment, Wisconsin Infantry Volunteers, in which he served until August 5, 1862, when he was commissioned colonel of the 13th Regiment, Wisconsin Infan- try Volunteers, at the head of which regiment he served until the close of the war.
While in the military service he was chosen judge of the first judicial circuit, entering upon the duties of his office January, 1866. He served on this circuit until January, 1871, when he was appointed by Governor Fairchild to the seat on the bench of the supreme court made vacant by the death of Byron Paine. The following spring he was elected to fill the vacancy and in 1877 was re-elected; was again re-elected in 1883. On the retirement of Chief Justice Orsamus Cole in 1891, he became ex-officio chief justice of the supreme court. He will retire from the bench at the close of his present term in January, 1894.
HARLOW S. ORTON, associate justice, was born November 25, 1817, in Niagara county, New York. He was educated at Hamilton Academy and Madison University in that state; taught school and devoted his spare time to the study of the law. In 1837 he removed to La Porte, Indiana, spent a year in the further study of law and was admitted to the bar March 8, 1838, and entered upon the practice in that year; when 23 years of age he was ap pointel probate judge in 1843. In 1847 he came to Wisconsin, and practiced law four years in Milwaukee. In January, 1852, he accepted the office of private secretary to Gov. Leonard J.Farwell, and took up his residence in Madison. He was member of the assembly in 1854, 1859 and 1871. In 1859 he was chosen to succeed Luther S. Dixon as circuit judge of the ninth ju licial circuit. He was once re-elected, and in 1865 declined a second re-election. He then entered upon the practice of his profession. In 1876 he was candidate for member of congress for the Second district; was mayor of Madison in 1877, and the same year was ap- pointed on the commission to revise the statutes. He was dean of the law faculty of the University of Wisconsin from 1869 to 1874, and lecturer on several legal topics, and received from that institution the degree of LL. D. Upon the increase of the number of judges of the supreme court in 1878, he was elected justice and is now serving on his second term of ten years.
JOIIN B. CASSODAY was born in Herkimer county, New York, July 7, 1830; removed with his widowed mother to Tioga county, Pennsylvania, three years later. Ilis early studies were pursued in the common schools, at the academies in Wellsville and Knoxville, Pennsylvania, and two years at the Alfred Academy, where he graduated. He spent one year at the Michigan University and then attended the Albany law school; afterwards reading in a law office in Wellsboro, Pennsylvania. In July, 1857, he settled in Janesville, Wisconsin, and continued actively in practice until called to the supreme bench; was mem- ber of the assembly in 1865, and again in 1877, when he was elected speaker of that body. In 1880, November 11, he was appointed by Governor William E. Smith, as associate justice of the supreme court, a vacancy having been caused by the promotion of Associate Justice
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Cole to the chief justiceship to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Chief Justice Edward G. Ryan. He was elected associate justice in April, 1881, and again in April, 1889, and is a professor in the College of Law, University of Wisconsin, lecturing on the law of wills and constitu tional law.
JOHN B. WINSLOW was born October 4, 1851, at Nunda, Livingston county, New York. He graduated at Racine college, Wisconsin, in 1871, and entered upon the study of the law in the law office of E. O. Hand, and later in the law office of Fuller & Dyer. He finished his course of reading at the law department of the University of Wisconsin, from which he graduated in 1875, and entered upon the practice at Racine. In April, 1883, he was elected circuit judge of the first judicial circuit, and entered upon judicial duties in January, 1884, serving in that capacity, being re-elected, until May 4, 1891, when he was appointed asso- ciate justice of the supreme court, in place of Hon. David Taylor, deceased. In April, 1892, he was elected to fill the residue of Judge Taylor's term; in 1889 he was special lecturer on criminal practice in the College of Law in the University of Wisconsin.
SILAS U. PINNEY was born in Rockdale, Crawford county, Pennsylvania, March 3, 1833. In 1846 his father removed with his family to Dane county, Wisconsin, settling in what is now the town of Windsor. The country was then new and sparsely settled. He received the benefit of some private instruction, and at the age of 17 years taught district school; while working on the farm he began reading text books of law, and in 1853 entered the law office of Vilas & Remington, in Madison, as a student. In February, 1854, he was admitted to the bar, and was actively engaged in the practice until his entry upon judicial labors in 1892. In 1858 he was attorney for the city of Madison; in 1865 member of the city council; in 1869 he was the democratic candidate for attorney general; in 1874 he was mayor of Madison; re-elected mayor in 1875; member of the legislature, elected without opposition, in 1875. He prepared the 16th volume of Wisconsin Reports in 1865; in 1870 he was appointed special reporter by the supreme court to report for publication the decisions of the territorial supreme court. He was elected justice of the supreme court in April, 1891, and entered upon his duties January 5, 1892; for several years, while in practice, he was lecturer in the College of Law of the University of Wisconsin.
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HEADS OF INSTRUCTIONAL FORCE OF THE UNI- VERSITY OF WISCONSIN.
PRESIDENT OF THE UNIVERSITY.
CHARLES KENDALL ADAMS, LL. D., president of the University of Wisconsin, was born January 24, 1835, at Derby, Vermont; graduated at the University of Michigan, pur- sued his studies at Ann Arbor, Bonn, Heidelberg, Leipzig, Berlin and Paris; received the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1861; Master of Arts in 1862; Doctor of Laws by Harvard University in 1886; was student in University of Michigan from 1857 to 1862; assistant pro- fessor of Latin and history from 1862 to 1867; professor of history from 1867 to 1885; dean of the school of political science from 1881 to 1885; president of the Cornell University from 1885 to 1892, and elected president of the University of Wisconsin in 1892; is the author of Democracy and Monarchy in France, 1872; German edition, 1874; Manual of Historical Literature, 1882, 3d edition, 1889; British Orations, 3 vols., 1883; Christopher Columbus, His Life and Works, 1892.
VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE UNIVERSITY.
JOHN BARBER PARKINSON, A. M., vice-president of the university, professor of civil polity and political economy, was born near Edwardsville, Madison county, Illinois, April 11, 1834: graduated at the University of Wisconsin in 1860; was appointed instructor in 1861; was a regent of the university in 1866; appointed full professor-the first from the Alumni -in 1867, and vice-president in 1885; has been connected with the university over thirty years; several adresses of his read before the State Agricultural Society, the Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters, and other societies have been published; courses of lectures on International Law, English and American Constitutional Law and Political Economy have also been prepared, but have not yet been published.
EDWARD A. BIRGE, Ph. D., Dean of the College of Letters and Science, was born Septem- ber 7, 1851, at Troy, N. Y .; educated in the public schools of Troy; graduated from Williams, College in 1873 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, and received the degree of Master of Arts in 1876; studied zoology in the Agassiz Museum of Comparative Zoology at Cambridge, Mass., until De"ember, 1875; received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy from Harvard University in 1878; studied histology and physiology in the University of Leipsic, Germany, during the college year 1880-1: elected instructor in natural history at the University of Wisconsin in 1875; professor of zoology in 1879, and in 1891 received the additional office of Dean of Col- lege of Letters and Science. His papers are scientific papers, mainly in the Archiv für Physiologic, and the Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters.
W. A. IIENRY, Dean of the College of Agriculture, was born at Norwalk, Ohio, June 16, 1850. His early life was spent on a farm in northwestern Ohio. He studied at the Defiance, Ohio, high school, Holbrook normal school, and Ohio Wesleyan University. Was principal of the New Haven, Indiana, high school 1871. Principal of the Boulder, Colorado, school 1873-76. Entered Cornell University in the fall of '76, and was graduated from that institution in 1880, with the degree of Bachelor of Agriculture. In the summer of 1879 was with Prof. C. V. Riley of the United States Entomological Commission, Washington, D. C. During 1829 and '80 was assistant in the botanical department at Cornell. Was appointed professor of botany and agriculture, University of Wisconsin, beginning work in September, 1880. In 1882 was relieved of botanical work and elected professor of agriculture. In 1887 was given charge of the work of the experiment station under the title of Director. In 1891 was appointed Dean of the College of Agriculture. Present title, Dean of the College of Agrienlture and Director of the Agricultural Experiment Station. Since 1887 has served as staff' correspond-
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ent for the Breeders' Gazette, Chicago. In 1881-2, under the direction of the legislature, he conducted experiments in the manufacture of sugar from amber cane, and the ensiloing of fodders, the report of the work being embraced in two volumes published by the state. The experiment station, under his direction, has issued eight annual reports and thirty- three bulletins. He is the author of the section on Cattle Feeding in the recent special re- port on Diseases of Cattle and Cattle Feeding, published by the Department of Agriculture, Washington.
RICHARD THEODORE ELY, Director of the School of Economics, Political Science and History, and Professor of Political Economy, was born at Ripley, Chautauqua county, New York; graduated at Columbia College, New York, in 1876, and at the Heidelberg University in 1879; received the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1876, and the Fellowship of Letters; Doctor of Philosophy at Heidelberg, 1879; D: ctor of Laws, Hobart College, Geneva, New York 1892; occupied the chair of political economy at Johns Hopkins University from 1881 to 1892; was called to the University of Wisconsin in 1892 as professor of political economy and director of the School of Economics, Political Science and History; is the author of "French and Ger- man Socialism in Modern Times;" "Labor Movement in America:" "Taxation in American States and Cities;" "Problems of To-day;" "Political Economy;" "Social Aspects of Chris- tianity." While a student at Berlin he prepared for the United States Department of State an elaborate paper on German railways; in Baltimore he was a member of the city tax com- mission, and for two years a member of the state tax commission of Maryland.
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