Blue Book of Wisconsin, 1887, Crawford Co., WI Biographies

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Submitted by David W. Taft, dtaft@cowtown.net

Source: The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin, 1887, Page 481

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES: REPRESENTATIVES

Seventh District
Crawford, Juneau, La Crosse, Monroe, Richland, Sauk and Vernon counties.  
Population, 165,630

ORMSBY B. THOMAS, of Prairie du Chien, Crawford County, was born in Sandgate, 
Bennington county, Vermont, August 21, 1832; received a common school education; 
he came to Wisconsin in 1836 and settled at Prairie du Chien, where he had 
continued to reside; is by profession an attorney-at-law; has been district 
attorney of Crawford county sever times, was member of assembly in 1862, 1865 
and 1867, presidential elector in 1872 and was state senator in 1880 and 1881; 
was in the war of the rebellion, being captain of company D, 31st Wisconsin Vol. 
Inf.  He was elected as a republican to the forty-ninth congress, receiving 
18,437 votes against 15,446 for Gilbert M. Woodward, democrat can 1,147 for S. 
B. Loomis, prohibitionist; re-elected to the fiftieth congress, receiving 16,720 
votes against 11,917 votes for S. N. Dickenson, democrat, and 2,175 votes for S. 
B. Loomis, prohibitionist.

Source: The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin, 1887, Page 494

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES: ASSEMBLY

Crawford County, Population, 1885 – 16,181

HUGH PORTER (Rep.), of Crawford county, was born in Morgan county, Ohio, 
September 23, 1843; received a common school education; is a farmer; came to 
Wisconsin with his parents in 1854 and settled at a place then called Newport, 
in Columbia county, removing in 1855 to Allamakee county, Iowa, thence to his 
present home, in August, same year, where he has since resided; entered the 
service in February, 1865, as a private, in Co. F, 49th Wis. Regt. Vol. Inft,; 
was discharged in November following; has since been engaged in farming; has 
held different town offices; is at present chairman of town board and president 
of the Crawford County Agricultural Society; was elected member of the present 
assembly, receiving 1,671 votes, against 1, 271 votes for Thomas W. Tower, 
democrat; was chairman of the committee on Federal Relations in the 38th 
assembly.