staff-Edwards Company, manufacturers of caskets and chairs at Oshkosh, and has ever since been manager of the chair department and secretary of the company. He was elected to the assembly in 1894, from the 3d district, receiving 2,749 votes over Leo L. Larrabee, democrat, who received 1,036 and Nick Becker, populist, who received 252. He was re-elected to the assembly in 1896, from the 1st district, receiving 2,487 votes, against 2,042 for D. W. Fernandez, democrat. He was elected speaker of the assembly, session of 1897, receiving 91 out of 100 votes cast.

Second District. The towns of Clayton, Menasha, Neenah, Vinland, Winchester, Winneconne and Wolf River, and the village of Winneconne, and the cities of Menasha and Neenah.

Population in 1895-19,372.

SILAS BULLARD (Rep.), of Menasha, was born December 9, 1841, at Greenfield, Franklin county, Massachusetts. He attended the common schools in Massachusetts, Power's institute, Bernardstown, Massachusetts and Bridgeton academy at Bridgeton, Maine; working on a farm to earn his way through school. He came to Wisconsin August 4, 1871, settling at Menasha, where he has ever since resided. In 1873 and 1874, he was part owner of the Menasha Press. He studied law at Portland, Maine, and was admitted to the bar in 1867. He was superintendent of the Menasha schools for six years; mayor of Menasha In 1881-2, county supervisor for seven years; city attorney 1882-3, and since 1893. Was district attorney from January 1, 1885, to January 1, 1889, and has held various other offices. He is a lawyer, banker and manufacturer, being secretary and treasurer of the Paul Paper company and vice-president of the First National bank of Menasha. He was elected to the assembly in 1894, receiving 1,821 votes, against 1,415 for M. M. Schoetz, democrat, and 309 for Sam'l Neff, populist; was re-elected to the assembly in 1896, receiving 2,250 votes, against 1,885 for Jens P. Jasperson, democrat and populist.

Third District. The towns of Algoma, Black Wolf, Nekiml, Nepeuskun, Omro (including village of Omro), Poygan, Rushford and Utica, and the Third, Sixth, Ninth and Thirteenth wards of the city of Oshkosh.

Population in 1895-18,883.

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 1866; 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, was elected to the assembly in 1892 and again in 1896, receiving at the last election 2,810 votes, against 1,587 for his opponent, Geo. C. Cornish, democrat.

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WOOD COUNTY.
Population in 1895-21,637.

HERMAN C. WIPPERMAN (Rep.), of Grand Rapids, was born in the town of Mosel, Sheboygan county, July 28, 1853. He received a common school education; is a lawyer by profession, having graduated from the law department of the state university with the class of 1889. In 1873 he removed from Mosel to Chilton, in Calumet county, where he remained until 1891, when he located at Grand Rapids. Aside from minor town offices to which he was chosen, he was city attorney of Grand Rapids from 1893 to 1894; was nominated by the republicans of Calumet county for district attorney in 1890, but failed of election. He was a member of the assembly in 1895, and was re-elected to the assembly in 6, receiving 2,657 votes, against 2,014 for James K. P. Hiles, democrat, and for E. C. Yant, prohibitionist.

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OFFICERS OF THE SENATE.

WALTER L. HOUSER, of Mondovi, Buffalo county, chief clerk of the senate, was born May 6, 1855, at Tidioute, Pennsylvania, and came to Wisconsin in 1865. He received a common school and academic education. Le first settled in Pierce county where he resided until 1870, when he removed to Pepin county, where he remained until 1874, when he returned to Pierce county for a short time. Since 1875 he has resided in Mondovi. He is editor of the Mondovi Herald. Has been justice of the peace, municipal judge for five years, and mayor. At the session of the legislature of 1895, he was chosen chief clerk of the senate, having been nominated by acclamation in the republican caucus; he was re-elected chief clerk in 1897, receiving 30 of the 31 votes cast.

CHARLES A. PETTIBONE, Oconomowoc, Waukesha county, Wisconsin, sergeant-at-arms of the senate, was born in the town of Hartsville, Steuben county, New York, May 26, 1841; received a common school and partial collegiate education at Wayland and Lawrence universities; is by profession an editor; came to Wisconsin in 1850 and settled in the town of Beaver Dam, Dodge county; published the New London News at New London, in 1874, and The Telephone, at Mayville, in 1877, and is at present editor and proprietor of the Oconomowoc Republican; enlisted August 15, 1861, in Company C, First Wisconsin cavalry; served as a private, second lieutenant and captain, acted as A. A. Q. M. of brigade and first division cavalry department of Cumberland; took part in most of the engagements in which the regiment participated; was mustered out of service March 7, 1865; was elected state senator for the thirteenth district in 1886, for four years. Was chairman of the committee on Printing in the 38th session. In 1895 and 1897 he was chosen sergeant-at-arms of the senate by acclamation, receiving the nomination in the republican caucuses by acclamation.

OFFICERS OF THE ASSEMBLY.

WINSLOW A. NOWELL, chief clerk of the assembly, of Milwaukee, was born at Portsmouth, N. H., Jan. 31, 1840. He received a common school and academic education. Was in business employment as bookkeeper and cashier in the city of New York from 1856 until 1863, removing to Milwaukee during the latter year and engaging in mercantile business, and subsequently in paper manufacturing. His present occupation is that of a journalist. He was an alderman in 1872, commissioner of public works from 1873 to 1876, deputy United States marshal from 1878 to 1880, and postmaster at Milwaukee, by appointment of President Harrison, from Oct. 1, 1889, to Dec. 31, 1893. From 1885 to 1889 he was secretary of the Republican State Central committee. He was chief clerk of the session of 1877, and was again elected to that position in 1895 and re-elected in 1897.

CHARLES M. HAMBRIGHT (Rep.), of Racine, sergeant-at-arms of the assembly, was born in Racine county, July 7, 1845, and received his education in the public schools. He resided in Dodge county from 1849 to 1867, and for three years in the seventies, but with those exceptions, has spent his entire life in Racine. He has for a number of years been traveling for the Racine woolen mills, and is a stockholder and secretary of that company. He enlisted for one year in March, 1865, and was discharged in the following June. He was an alderman of Beaver Dam in 1876 and 1877, and was elected to the assembly in 1894, receiving 2,119 votes against 1,185 for Peter Galloway, democrat, 1,288 for Andrew Hanson, populist, and 113 for J. B. Corse, prohibition. He was elected sergeantat-arms of the assembly at the present session, receiving 90 out of a total of 99 votes cast.

JUSTICES OF THE SUPREME COURT.

JOHN B. CASSODAY, chief justice, was born in Herkimer county, New York, July 7, 1830; removed with his widowed mother to Tioga county, Pennsylvania, three years later. His early studies were pursued in the common schools, at the academies in Wellsboro 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 member 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 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 constitutional law. He is the author of "Cassoday on Wills," a law text book published in 1893. He became chlef justice upon the death of Chief Justice Orton in July, 1895, by virtue of his seniority in service.

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. He was for several years city attorney of 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 associate 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 April, 1895, he was elected for a full term; the residue of Judge Taylor's term; in April, 1895, he was re-elected for a full 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, Penn., March 3, 1833. In 1846 his father moved 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 attended the common schools and received the benefit of some private instruction. At the age of seventeen years he taught district school, and while working on a farm he began reading text-books of law. In 1853 he 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 without opposition, and was elected member of the assembly the same year. He prepared the 16th volume of Wisconsin Reports in 1865; in 1870 he was appointed special reporter of 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.