Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....Clason, Jesse 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.

DODGE COUNTY.

First District. The towns of Ashippun, Clyman, Emmett, Herman,
Hubbard, Hustisford, Lebanon, LeRoy, Lomira, Rubicon, Shields,
Theresa, Williams- town, the village of Horicon, the Fifth and Sixth
wards of the city of Watertown, and the city of Mayville.

Population in 1895—24,284.

JESSE A. CLASON (Gold Dem.), of Neosho, Dodge county, was born October
15, 1860, at Clason Prairie, town of Beaver Dam, Dodge county,
Wisconsin, and was a lineal descendant of Stephen Clason, who settled
at Stanford, Connecticut, in 1654, having been forced to flee from
Scotland in consequence of hostility to Cromwell's government; he was
educated in the Clason Prairie district school, in the Milwaukee
public schools and Wayland University, Beaver Dam; began the study of
medicine in 1882; became a medical student under Dr. S. W. Thurber,
with whom he went to Tecumseh, Nebraska; attended the Missouri Medical
College at St. Louis, graduating therefrom March 4, 1884; in the same
year he settled at Elk Creek, Nebraska; moved to Chicago in 1885. and
in October of the same year returned to Neosho. He is a member of the
Wisconsin State Medical Society, of the Bernard Medical Society, and
of the Dodge County Medical Society, and has been health officer of
the towns of Herman and Rubicon since 1889; was appointed United
States pension examining surgeon with headquarters at Milwaukee in
1893, and in 1894 was transferred to the board of pension examining
surgeons established at Horicon, Wisconsin; he organized and has been
president of the Neosho Young Men's Democratic Club, number 23 in the
National League, the first uniform democratic club organized in Dodge
county; was chairman of the Dodge county democratic committee until
the first convention of 1896; was elected delegate to the democratic
state convention, but publicly declared his adherence to the sound
money principles; when the Chicago convention adopted the free silver
platform he renounced it and became an ardent supporter of McKinley
and Hobart, and Hon. Edward Sauerhering for member of congress. He was
elected to the assembly in 1896, from the First Assembly district of
Dodge county, having been nominated by the gold democrats and endorsed
by the republicans, receiving 2,946 votes, against 2,414 for Herman
Rosenkrans, the regular democratic nominee.

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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