A former chief clerk of the assembly removed to Ripon, Wis.

The evidence

• “Two years later he was chosen chief clerk of the assembly in the Wisconsin legislature, was reelected annually for four years in succession, and almost unanimously. In 1859 he removed to Ripon, Wis. When the war broke out he was elected lieutenant in the”

  1908-brown-rock-county/16-military-history.md, Vol. 1, PDF p. 423 / book p. 390

  Brown, William Fiske, editor. Rock County, Wisconsin: A New History of Its Cities, Villages, Towns, Citizens and Varied Interests, from the Earliest Times, Up to Date. Chicago: C. F. Cooper & Co., 1908. 2 vols. archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon01brow, archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon02brow.

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