Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....Barnum, Mark H. 
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Source: The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin, 1897
Author: Compiled and Published under under the direction of Henry Casson

ASSEMBLY.
The assembly consists of 100 members, who are chosen biennially by districts, 
and who receive a compensation of $500 for their term of office. The speaker is 
chosen by the members, and receives $500 for his services.
The assembly contains 91 republicans, 8 democrats and 1 fusion.

MARATHON COUNTY.

Second District. The towns of Easton, Eldron, Harrison, Hewitt, Knowlton, 
Knonenwetter, Norrie, Pike Lake, Plover, Texas, Wausau and Weston, and the city 
of Wausau.
Population in 1895—18,424.

MARK H. BARNUM (Rep.), of Wausau, Marathon county, was born March
14, 1834, in Syracuse, New York; was educated in the common schools and 
Janesville Academy, in Onondaga county, New York; came to Wisconsin in 1855, 
taught school at Rosendale in 1856 and in Springvale in 1857, and moved to 
Wausau in the spring of 1857; was admitted to the bar in 1858; was elected 
district attorney of Marathon county the same year; was village clerk in 1863 
and district attorney in 1871; served in the war of the rebellion from May 10, 
1861. to December 2, 1862; participated in the siege of Yorktown, the battle of 
Williamsburg and seven days’ battles before Richmond, was owner and publisher 
of the “Torch of liberty” from August 9, 1877, until 1894, having established 
the paper in 1877. He was elected to the assembly in 1896, receiving 2,092 
votes, against 1,922 for E. J. Anderson, democrat.

Additional Comments:
The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin Compiled and Published under
the direction of Henry Casson, Secretary of State 1897.


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