chairman of the board from 1889 to June, 1895, having been rpeatedly chosen to that office when the board was democratic. He was elected to the senate in 1894, receiving 6,591 votes, against 3,721 for Lucas M. Miller, democrat; 371 for Wesley Mott, prohibition, and 878 for Jens P. Jasperson, populist. TWENTIETH DISTRICT. Ozaukee and Sheboygan counties. Population, 1895-64,941. FRED A. DENNETT (Rep.) was born May 19, 1849, in Greenville, Pisquatiquis Co., Maine; came to Wisconsin with parents at age of two years, and settled three miles north of Sheboygan at Pigeon river; moved thence to Sheboygan, where he lived two years, and thence to Sheboygan Falls where he lived until 21 years of age; was educated in the common schools at Sheboygan Falls, Wis., and Bryant, Stratton & Spencer's Commercial College, Milwaukee. He went to Beloit in the employ of Proctor & Stone, reaper manufacturers, and was afterward secretary of that company. Was subsequently engaged in manufacturing binders and mowers in Milwaukee; was for two years general eastern agent for Wm. Deering & Co., of Philadelphia; returned to Sheboygan in 1886 to engage in the manufacture of furniture, where he has since resided. He established the Wisconsin Chair Co. at Port Washington in 1888, which at present employs 400 hands. He was chief clerk of the senate in 1875, and for ten consecutive years previous held the different clerkships in the assembly; was for several sessions bookkeeper and assistant clerk. He was elected to the state senate in 1896, receiving 8,263 votes, against 5,346 votes for James Leahy, democrat-populist candidate. TWENTY-FIRST DISTRICT. Portage and Waupaca counties. Population, 1895-59,324. JOHN PHILLIPS (Rep.), of Stevens Point, was born at Richmond, Vermont, November 4, 1823, and was educated in the common schools and at Johnston (Vt.) Academy. He graduated at the Rush Medical College, Chicago, in 1853. He came to Wisconsin in 1845, and has practiced his profession as a physician since 1848, at Stevens Point. He has been supervisor of the town of Stevens Point, a member of the Portage county board of supervisors, school superintendent of the town of Stevens Point, and was a member of the assembly in 1860 and 1864. He was pension examiner from 1863 to 1885. He was a regent of normal schools from 1876 to 1891, and was treasurer and president of the Stevens Point board of edu cation from 1876 to 1881. He was on the board of visitors to West Point in 1864. He was elected to the senate in 1894, receiving 7,637 votes, against 3,539 for A. R. Lea, democrat, and 603 for George Ratcliff, prohibition. P TWENTY-SECOND DISTRICT. The towns of Bradford, Center, Fulton, Harmony, Janesville, Johnstown, Lima, La Prairie, Magnolia, Milton, Porter, Rock and Union, and the village of Evansville, and the cities of Edgerton and Janesville, in the county of Rock, and the towns of Aztalan, Jefferson, Koshkonong, Lake Mills, Milford, Oakland, Sumner and Waterloo, and the cities of Fort Atkinson and Jefferson, in the county of Jefferson. Population, 1895-50,352. JOHN M. WHITEHEAD (Rep.) was born July 29, 1852, on a farm near Hillsboro, Illinois. Was educated at a select school, Hillsboro Academy, preparatory department of Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Ind. (1871-2), Williston Seminary, Easthampton, Mass. (1872-3), Yale College (1873-77), where he took the degree of A. B. He studied law in the office of Leaming & Thompson at Chleago, and was admitted to the bar of Illinois in October, 1880, and to the bar of Wisconsin in September, 1883. He came to Wisconsin in August, 1883, settling at Janesville, where he has since resided. Is a member of the county board of Rock county, representing the 4th ward of Janesville. Was elected to the state senate in 1896, receiving 7,105 votes, against 4,725 votes for W. W. Reed, democrat, and 1 vote for W. T. Vankirk. р TWENTY-THIRD DISTRICT. The county of Walworth, and the towns of Cold Springs, Concord, Farmington, TWENTY-FOURTH DISTRIC Buffalo, Eau Claire and Pepin counties. Population, 1895-57,670. JOHN W. WHELAN (Rep.) was born Nov. 1, 1845, and is a native of Wisconsin. He was educated in the common schools and Wisconsin University, graduating from the latter institution in the class of 1871; resided at Monches, Waukesha county, from 1845 to 1872; Fort Worth, Texas, from 1872 to 1874; Eau Claire, Wis., from 1874 to 1876; Mondovi, Buffalo county, from 1876 to the present time; taught several terms of school prior to 1872; studied law with Judge Barclay at Fort Worth, Texas, and at Eau Claire and was admitted to the bar in that city in 1876, and has practiced law ever since at Mondovi; lives on a farm of 500 acres adjoining Mondovi city; has been president of the Bank of Mondovi since its organization; was member of the Wisconsin legislature in 1889 and 1890, and served several terms as chairman of the county board of supervisors of Buffalo county; was nominated for the assembly in 1890 on the Republican ticket, but was defeated by John Leonhardy, democrat. He was elected to the senate in 1896, receiving 7,943 votes, against 3,857 for Victor Wolf, democrat, and 225 votes for John D. Eldridge, prohibitionist. TWENTY-FIFTH DISTRICT. Clark and Marathon counties. Population, 1895-57,940. CLARION A. YOUMANS (Rep.), of Neillsville, Clark county, was born October 14, 1847, at Kenosha, Wisconsin. He was educated in the common schools and In the law school of the State University, from which he graduated in 1876, He resided in Kenosha until 1852, then in Arlington, Columbia county, until 1872, In which year he went to Neillsville, where he has since resided. He was raised on a farm, but for a few years before attending the law school had been in the mercantile business at Neillsville. Was county judge of Clark county in 1877, and district attorney of Clark county from 1882 to 1885. He has been interested In farming, lumbering and flouring enterprises, and was from 1890 to 1893 president of the Clark County Agricultural society. He has been since 1876 engaged in the practice of law at Neillsville. He was elected to the state senate in 1894, receiving 5,607 votes, against 3,557 for H. P. Graham, democrat, and 518 for Peter Truax, prohibition. He was a member of the judiciary, railroads and roads and bridges committees during session of 1895. TWENTY-SIXTH DISTRICT. The county of Dane. Population, 1895-65,669. CHAUNCEY B. WELTON (Rep.) was born September 1, 1844, at Sharon, Ohio. He was educated in the common schools and the academy at Weymouth, Ohio; came to Wisconsin in May, 1855, but returned to Ohio in 1858; went to Michigan at the close of the war and moved from there to Wisconsin in 1877; resided at Rockton, Vernon county, from 1877 to 1882, at Windsor from 1882 to 1883,and has since been a resident of Madison. Was in the mercantile business at Allegan, Mich., in 1873-4; Kalamazoo, Mich., in 1875-6; Rockton, Wis., 1878 to 1881; Windsor, Wis., 1882-3; and in Madison since 1884. He was clerk of the town of Whitestown, Vernon county, in 1881, and commander of the Department of Wisconsin G. A. R., in 1892; served in the war of the Rebellion in Co. 1, 103 Ohio Vol. Inf., from August 21, 1862, to close of war. He was elected to the state senate in 1896, receiving 9,016 votes, against 6,607 votes for Wm. Charleton, democrat, and 438 votes for J. B. Smith, prohibitionist. TWENTY-SEVENTH DISTRICT. Columbia and Sauk counties. Population, 1895-63,787. WILLIAM F. CONGER (Rep.), of Prairie du Sac, was born March 5, 1844, at Bloomfield, New Jersey, and received his education in the public schools of Bloomfield and of New York city. He came to Wisconsin at the age of eighteen In 1862, and worked as a clerk at Prairie du Sac until 1871, since which date he has been engaged in a general mercantile business and dealing in wool. He enlisted in the 7th New York Volunteers in 1862, coming to Wisconsin at the expiration of his term of service in the same year and enlisted in the 42d Wisconsin Volunteers. He held the rank of sergeant and acting sergeant major. He was a delegate to the national republican convention in 1892, and was an unsuccessful candidate for the assembly in 1890. He was elected to the state senate in 1894, receiving 5,637 votes against Evan W. Evans, democrat, who received 4,194, and Joseph W. Wood, prohibitionist, who received 390. Ра TWENTY-EIGHTH DISTRICT. Crawford, Richland and Vernon counties. Population, 1895-63,857. OLIVER G. MUNSON (Rep.), of Viroqua, was born March 2, 1856, in Howard county, Iowa; was educated in the common and high schools of Iowa and Minnesota; came to Wisconsin in 1876; resided in Richland Center ten years and at Viroqua eleven years; is an editor and publisher, having published the Richland Republican ten years and the Vernon Co. Censor eleven years; has been city clerk of Richland Center, supervisor from city of Viroqua, bookkeeper in the state senate several terms and assistant chief clerk of the assembly two terms. He was elected to the senate in 1896, receiving 9,361 votes, against 5,221 votes for B. F. Washburn, the fusion candidate, and 1 vote for A. J. Shauff. Р TWENTY-NINTH DISTRICT. Chippewa and Dunn counties. Population, 1895-53,733. JAMES H. STOUT (Rep.), of Menomonie, was born at Dubuque, Iowa, September 25, 1848, and was educated in the public schools of Dubuque and in the Chicago University. He came to Wisconsin in 1889, and has ever since been engaged in the lumber business at Menomonie. He has been for several years one of the trustees of the Dunn county insane asylum; president of the Menomonie board of education and life member of the Dubuque library and life trustee of the Findlay hospital at Dubuque. He was elected to the senate in 1894, receivIng 7,298 votes against 1,405 for Carl Preper, populist, and ten scattering. в THIRTIETH District. Florence, Forest, Langlade, Lincoln, Oneida, Price, Taylor and Vilas countles. Population, 1895-56,611. DANIEL E. RIORDAN (Rep.) was born September 7, 1863, in Berlin, Green Lake county, Wis.; was educated in Berlin high school and Valparaiso (Indiana) normal school; studied law in the office of R. L. D. Potter at Berlin, Wis., and in the office of J. F. Riordan at Hayward. Wis.; resided at Berlin until 1891, at Hayward from 1891 to 1892, and at Eagle River, Vilas county, from 1892 to the present time; taught school, attended school and studied law until 1892; was admitted to the bar in 1892 and has since practiced law; was appointed judge of the municipal court of Vilas county by Gov. Upham in April, 1895, and still holds the office; was nominated for the office of district attorney of Vilas county in 1896 and declined; was elected to the senate in 1896, receiving 10,837 votes, against 6,195 votes for H. R. Fehland, democrat. THIRTY-FIRST DISTRICT. Jackson, Juneau and Monroe counties. Population, 1895-61,826. JAMES J. MCGILLIVRAY (Rep.), of Black River Falls, Jackson county, was born at Barrachols, Gasbie county, Canada, East, June 16, 1848. He received his education in the common schools, and came to Wisconsin, making his home at Black River Falls, November 21, 1866. He is an architect and manufacturer of sash, doors and blinds. He was elected to the assembly in 1890, and re-elected In 1892. During his first term in the assembly he was sponsor of the "anti-trust bill," also exempting wide tired wagons from taxes. The reduction of interest on money loaned to school districts from 6 and 7 to 4 per cent., the reduction of Interest on tax sale certificates from 25 to 15 per cent., and during his entire experience in the assembly took an active and earnest part in all the important legislation brought before the assembly. He was elected to the state senate in 1894, receiving 8,573 votes against 3,820 for J. R. Hinckley, democrat, and 491 for D. L. Brown, prohibition. THIRTY-SECOND DISTRICT. La Crosse and Trempealeau countles. Population, 1895-65,573. LEVI WITHEE (Rep.), of La Crosse, La Crosse county, was born in Norridgewock, Me., October 26, 1834, and received a common school education in Maine; came to Wisconsin in 1853, and settled at La Crosse; has for the most of the time resided there since; is by occupation a lumberman; has not before held public office; was elected state senator in 1892, receiving 5,802 votes, against 6,293 for George Y. Freeman, democrat, 644 for John N. Jones, people's party, and 38 for C. H. Van Wormer, prohibitionist; was re-elected state senator in 1896, receiving 9,545 votes, against 4,739 votes for Herman E. Simpson, democrat. THIRTY-THIRD DISTRICT. Washington and Waukesha counties. Population, 1895-60,639. STEPHAN F. MAYER (Dem.), of West Bend, was born in West Bend, February 1, 1854. He was educated in the common schools and took a commercial course at the university of Notre Dame, Indiana. He has resided all his life at West Bend, where he is engaged in business as a brewer and malster. He was elected county treasurer without opposition in 1886 and in 1888; has been a member of the county board since 1891, and was chairman in 1893, and was elected chairman of the board this year; also a member of the school board of his city. He was elected to the state senate in 1894, without opposition, receiving 6,095 votes. ASSEMBLY. The assembly consists of 100 members, who are chosen blennially by districts, and who receive a compensation of $500 for their term of office. The speaker is chosen by the members, and receives $500 for his services. The assembly contains 91 republicans, 8 democrats and 1 fusion. ADAMS AND MARQUETTE COUNTIES. Population in 1895-17,735. SOLON W. PIERCE (Rep.), of Friendship, was born March 7, 1831, in Yorkshire, Cattauragus county, N. Y.; received an academic education at Mendon, N. Y.; came to Wisconsin in October, 1855, and settled at White Creek, Adams county; December 1, 1857, he removed to Friendship in the same county, which has since been his home; he is by profession a lawyer and editor, having been admitted to the bar in June, 1858; he established the Adams County Press April 25, 1861, and excepting the time spent in the army in 1864-5, has had editorial charge of the paper from its first issue to the present time; he was the author of a book of war reminiscences, entitled, "Battle Fields and Camp Fires of the 38th Wisconsin Regiment," a volume of about 300 pages, besides many addresses and articles upon current events; he was elected county judge of Adams county In 1861, but resigned to enter the army in 1864; in 1866 he was elected district attorney of Adams county, which office he has held continuously ever since-over thirty years; he was draft commissioner in 1862, and entered the army as 1st Lieut. of Co. K, 38th Wis. Vols., in 1864 and took part with that regiment in |