Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....Borchsenius, Hans  
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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.

ST. CROIX COUNTY.
Population in 1895—25,870.

HANS BORCHSENIUS (Rep.), of Baldwin, was born September 19, 1832, at Nestved, 
Denmark; was educated in the Nestved high school and academy; came to this 
country July 15, 1856, and to Wisconsin on August 15 of the same year- lived in 
Madison from 1856 to April 17, 1877, and since that time in Baldwin St. Croix 
county; from 1856 to 1860 his occupation was that of a printer, edited and 
publisher, from 1860 to 1863, soldier; from January, 1863, to January 1869 
clerk of land office; from 1869 to 1873, county clerk of Dane county; from 1874 
to 1875, proprietor of Capitol House, Madison; in 1873, U. S. gauger;  was 
admitted to the bar of Dane county in 1876, and has since conducted a real 
estate and law business at Baldwin; was editor and publisher of the North Star 
at Madison m 1858-59, and of the Wisconsin Banner in 1872; was state agent on 
Chippewa and Menomonie rivers from January, 1874, to June 1, 1878; president 
of  the village of Baldwin three years; from October, 1891, to May 20, 1893, 
was chief of the internal revenue office in the treasury department at 
Washington, D. C.; he was elected to the assembly from St.  Croix county in 
1896, receiving 3, 315 votes, against 2,267 for William G. Bradley, democrat 
and populist, and 149 for Elisha G. Partridge, 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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