Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....Buttles, Mark M.  
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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.


LA CROSSE COUNTY.

Second District. The towns of Bangor (including village of Bangor), Barre, 
Burns, Farmington, Greenfield, Hamilton (including West Salem village), 
Holland, Onalaska, Shelby and Washington, and the city of Onalaska, and the 
Third, Eighth, Seventeenth and Eighteenth wards of the city of La Crosse.
Population in 1895—21,759.

MARK M. BUTTLES (Rep.), of Onalaska, La Crosse county, was born April 30, 1844, 
in Chautauqua county, New York,' and came to Wisconsin in 1845; was educated in 
the common schools of La Crosse county; resided in Walworth county from 1845 to 
1852; in Rock county from 1852 to 1854; in La Crosse county from 1854 to 1860; 
was engaged in mining, railroading and cattle raising in the Western territory 
from 1864 to 1873, returning to La Crosse county in 1873; from 1873 to 1879 he 
was a dealer in lumber, grain and live stock; from 1882 to 1896 he has been a 
merchant and stock buyer at Onalaska; was sheriff of La Crosse county in 1880-
81; served as a member of the county board in 1888, 1889, 1890, 1895, 1896; 
enlisted as a private in Company “A,” First Wisconsin Cavalry, in 1861, 
and'served two years, until disabled and honorably discharged. He was elected 
to the assembly in 1896, receiving 2,933 votes, against 1,579 for Frederick 
Schnell, democrat and populist, and 121 for Cornelius Hoffman, 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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