Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....Conger, William F. 
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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

TWENTY-SEVENTH DISTRICT.
Columbia and Sauk counties. Population, 1895 -- 63,787.

WILLIAM F. CONGER (Rep.), of Prairie du Sac, was born March 5, 1844, at 
Bloomfield, New Jersey, and received his education in the public schools of 
Bloomfield and of New York city. He came to Wisconsin at the age o*5 eighteen 
In 18G2, and worked as a clerk at Prairie du Sac until 1871, since which date 
he has been engaged in a general mercantile business and dealing in wool. He 
enlisted in the 7th New York Volunteers in 1862, coming to Wisconsin at the 
expiration of his term of service in the same year and enlisted in the 42d 
Wisconsin Volunteers. He held the rank of sergeant and acting sergeant major. 
He was a delegate to the national republican convention in 1892, and was an 
unsuccessful candidate for the assembly in 1890. He was elected to the state 
senate in 1894, receiving 5,637 votes against Evan W. Evans, democrat, who 
received 4,194, and Joseph W. Wood, prohibitionist, who received 390.

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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