Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....Davis, Charles W. 
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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

NINETEENTH DISTRICT.
The county of Winnebago. Population, 1895—57,627.

CHARLES W. DAVIS (Rep.), of Oshkosh, was born in Castleton, Vt, on January 5, 
1827. He was educated in the common schools of Warren county, N. Y., with one 
term in Chester academy. He came west in 1857, settling in Oshkosh in 1860, 
where he has ever since resided. During his residence in Oshkosh he has been 
engaged in various manufacturing and lumbering enterprises, and is now 
president of the German-American bank at Oshkosh, and is a member of the firm 
of Davis, Hansen & Co., iron pump manufacturers. He is also interested in a 
lumber business in South Dakota. Mr. Davis served several terms as an alderman 
during the “sixties,” and was elected mayor in 1868, taking a conspicuous part 
as such in the government improvement of the Fox and Wisconsin rivers. For six 
years he has been a member of the county board, and was chairman of the board 
from 1889 to June, 1895, having been repeatedly chosen to that office when the 
board was democratic. He was elected to the senate in 1894, receiving 6,591 
votes, 3gainst 3;721 for Lucas M. Miller, democrat; 371 for Wesley Mott, 
prohibition, and 878 for Jens P. Jasperson, populist.

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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