BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. MEMBERS OF CONGRESS. SENATORS. JOHN C. SPOONER (Rep.), of Hudson, was born at Lawrenceburg, Dearborn county Indiana, January 6, 1843; with his father's family he settled at Madison, Wisconsin, on June 1, 1859; graduated at the State University in 1864; is by profession a lawyer; was private in Co. D, 40th Regt., Wisconsin Volunteers, and captain of Co. A, 50th Regt., and at close of service was breveted major; was private secretary for a time to Governor Lucius Fairchild, and assistant attorney-general under Attorney-generals Charles R. Gill, and S. S. Barlow; removed to Hudson in 1870, to engage in the practice of his profession, where he has since resided; was elected member of assembly from St. Croix county in 1872. He was elected United States Senator to succeed Angus Cameron on January 28, 1885, receiving seventy-six votes against forty-eight for Edward S. Bragg, democrat. His term will ex pire March 4, 1891. PHILETUS SAWYER (Rep.), of Oshkosh, was born at Whiting, Vermont, September 22, 1816; received a public school and business education; came to Wisconsin in 1847. and engaged in the lumber business; was a member of the legislature in 1857 and 1861; was mayor of Oshkosh in 1863 and 1864; was elected to the thirty-ninth, fortieth, forty-first, fortysecond and forty-third congresses; was a delegate to the republican national convention at Chicago, in June, 1880; was elected United States Senator January 26, 1881, as a republican to succeed Angus Cameron, receiving 98 votes in joint legislative convention against 29 for James G. Jenkins, democrat, 1 for C. D. Parker, democrat, and 2 for C. C. Washburn, republican; was re-elected United States Senator January 26, 1887, as a republican, receiving 82 votes against 37 votes for John Winans, and 6 for John Cochrane. His term of office will expire March 4, 1893. REPRESENTATIVES. FIFTIETH CONGRESS. First District. Jefferson, Kenosha, Racine, Rock and Walworth counties. Population, 1885-154, 213. LUCIEN B. CASWELL (Rep.), of Fort Atkinson, was born at Swanton, Vermont, November 28, 1827; removed to Wisconsin in 1837; pursued a partial collegiate course at Beloit; studied law with Hon. Matt. H. Carpenter; was admitted to the bar in 1851, and has practiced ever since; was district attorney of Jefferson county in 1855 and 1856; was a member of the legislative assembly of Wisconsin in 1863, 72 and 74; was commissioner of the second district board of enrollment from September, 1863, to May 5, 1865; was a delegate to the republican national convention at Chicago in 1868; was elected to the fortyfourth, forty-fifth, forty-sixth, forty-seventh and forty-ninth congress as a republican, and is now a member of the judiciary committee in the House of Representatives; was reelected to the fiftieth congress and re-elected to the fifty-first congress, receiving 19,311 votes against 14,997 votes for Jos. B. Doe, Jr., democrat; 1,809 votes for Stephen Faville, prohibitionist; 3 votes for Henry Smith, labor, and 13 votes scattering. Plurality, 4,314. Second District. Dodge, Fond du Lac, Washington and Waukesha counties. Population, 1885 — 147, 970. CHARLES BARWIG (Dem.) of Mayville, Dodge county, was born in Hesse Darmstadt, Germany, March 19, 1837; was educated in Milwaukee and graduated from the Spencerian Business College in that city in 1857; located at Mayville, in 1865, where he has since resided; is by occupation a distiller and rectifier, but has recently retired from active business; was nominated and elected to the fifty-first congress in 1888, receiving 16,813 votes against 13,859 votes for E. C. McFetridge, republican; 830 votes for O. H. Crowl, prohibitionist; 103 votes for Clark Hewitt, labor, and 9 votes scattering. His plurality was 2,954. Third District. Dane, Grant, Green, Iowa and La Fayette counties. Population, 1885–162, 087. ROBERT M. LA FOLLETTE (Rep.), of Madison, Dane county, was born in the town of Primrose, Dane county, Wisconsin, June 14, 1855; received a district school and collegiate education, graduating at the University of Wisconsin in June, 1879; is by profession a lawyer, and was elected district attorney of Dane county in 1880, being re-elected in 1882; was elected, as a republican, to the forty-ninth congress, receiving 17,433 votes against 16,942 for Burr W. Jones, democrat, and 1,885 for John M. Olin, prohibitionist and greenbacker; was re-elected to the fiftieth congress, and re-elected to the fifty-first congress, receiving 19,052 votes, against 16, 123 votes for John B. Parkinson, democrat; 2,654 votes for T. C. Richmond, prohibitionist; 305 votes for C. D. Wooster, labor, and 7 votes scattering. Plurality 2,929. Fourth District. Milwaukee county. Population, 1885-187,600. ISAAC W. VAN SCHAICK (Rep.), of Milwaukee, was born in Coxsackie, Green county, New York, December 7, 1817; received such an education as the common schools afforded; he is one of the proprietors of the Phoenix Flouring Mills; came to Wisconsin in 1861, and settled at Milwaukee; had filled various local offices in his native state, and was elected councilor of the first ward of Milwaukee in 1871. He was elected to the assembly in 1872 and in 1874, and to the senate for 1877, 1878, receiving 7,399 votes, there being no opposing candidate. Re-elected for 1879, 1880, receiving 3,337 votes against 639 for David G. Hooker, democrat, and 312 for Robert Gunyon, greenbacker; was re-elected for 1881 and 1882, receiv ing 5,678 votes against 3,778 votes for Henry Smith, democrat. Elected to the fifty-first congress in 1888, receiving 22,212 votes against 20,685 votes for Henry Smith, democrat and labor, 302 votes for George M. Heckendorn, prohibitionist, 527 votes for John Schuler, socialist, and 3 votes scattering. Plurality 1,527. Fifth District. Brown, Calumet, Kewaunee, Manitowoc, Ozaukee and Sheboygan counties. Population, 1885-164,955. GEORGE H. BRICKNER (Dem.), of Sheboygan Falls, Sheboygan county, was born in Bavaria, Germany, January 21, 1834; received a common school education in Ohio; came to Wisconsin in 1855 and settled at Cascade, and moved to Sheboygan Falls in 1868; has held various local offices, and is by occupation a woolen manufacturer; was elected in November, 1888, member of the fifty-first congress, receiving 17,051 votes against 12,825 votes for Gustave Kustermann, republican, 179 for E. M. Dick, prohibitionist, and 854 for Charles Hatch, labor, and 8 votes scattering. Plurality 4,226. Sixth District. Adams, Columbia, Green Lake, Marquette, Outagamie, Waushara and Winnebago counties. Population, 1885- 162,146. CHARLES B. CLARK (Rep.), of Neenah, was born at Theresa, Jefferson county, New York, August 24, 1844; received a common school education; is engaged in manufacturing; came to Wisconsin in 1854 and settled at Neenah where he has continued to reside; enlisted in Co. I, 21st Wis. Vol. Inf., at its organization in 1862 and served with the same during the war; has held various minor local offices; was elected member of assembly in 1885; was elected to the fiftieth congress in 1886, receiving 15,983 votes against 11,526 votes for Andrew Haben, democrat, and 1,761 votes for E. D. Kanouse, prohibitionist. Re-elected to the fifty-first congress in 1888, receiving 17,977 votes against 14,213 votes for Chas. W. Felker, democrat; 1,233 votes for W. S. Sweet, prohibitionist; 805 votes for Peter A. Griffith, labor and 7 scattering. Plurality 3,764. |