Mr. Caswell was elected a member of the School Board in 1853.

The evidence

• “one in their municipal affairs, and under the town government township system I became superintendent of the schools and town clerk and much interested in about every part of the local government. In 1853 I was elected a member of the School Board and have continued a member ever since. In that line I have had the satisfaction of seeing our schools promoted from a few dozen scholars assembling in a very small school building to a half dozen houses, one of which is valued at nearly one hundred thousand dollars.”

  1900-caswell-reminiscences/10-politics-and-congress.md, PDF pp. 3–27

  Caswell, Lucien Bonaparte. The Reminiscences of the Hon. L. B. Caswell. Written at Fort Atkinson, Wis., 1914–1916; four-column newspaper reprint, newspaper and date unidentified. University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries.

  Grade A: Found on a page of one of our sources