Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....Bechtel, Daniel 
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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.

DANE COUNTY.

First District. The towns of Blooming Grove, Burke, Dunn, Madison,
Rutland, and the city of Madison. Population in 1895—22,002.

DANIEL BECHTEL (Dem.), of Madison, Dane county, was born August 31,
1845, in Lycoming county, Pennsylvania, and received a common school
education; came with his parents to Wisconsin in 1850, settling in the
town of Pleasant Springs, Dane county; in 1853 he moved to the farm he
now owns in the town of Blooming Grove, and is by occupation a farmer;
was town clerk three years; chairman of the town fourteen years;
sheriff of Dane county in 1883-84; secretary of the Cottage Grove Fire
Insurance company nine years, and has been president of the same
company for the past three years. He was elected to the assembly in
1896, receiving 2,831 votes, against 2,772 for George B. Burrows,
Republican, and 198 for Chas. F. Cronk, prohibitionist.

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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