Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....Buffington, Bryon A. 
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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.


EAU CLAIRE COUNTY.

First District. The town of Seymour and the. city of Altoona, and the
First Second, Third, Fifth, Sixth, and Eighth wards of the city of Eau
Claire.  Population in 1895—16,576.

BYRON A. BUFFINGTON (Rep.), of Eau Claire, Eau Claire county, was born
November 27, 1852, in Dodge Center, Dodge county, Wisconsin, and was
educated in the public schools of Eau Claire and Faribault Military
school, at Faribault, Minnesota; has resided in Eau Claire since 1856;
was engaged in general merchandising from 1874 to 1883; wholesale
grocer from 1883 to 1893; president of the Chippewa Valley Bank from
1894 to 1896; director of the Valley Lumber company, and also director
of the Carson-Rand Lumber company, of Eau Claire. He was elected to
the assembly in 1896, receiving 2,178 votes against 1,338 for Frank A.
Sebenthal, the democratic, populist and prohibitionist fusion
candidate.

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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