Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....Dennett, Fred 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

TWENTIETH DISTRICT.
Ozaukee and Sheboygan counties. Population, 1895—64,941.

FRED A. DENNETT (Rep.) was born May 19, 1849, in Greenville, Pisquatiquis Co., 
Maine; came to Wisconsin with parents at age of two years, and settled three 
miles north of Sheboygan at Pigeon river; moved thence to Sheboygan, where he 
lived two years, and thence to Sheboygan Falls where he lived until 21 years of 
age; was educated in the common schools at Sheboygan Falls, Wis., and Bryant, 
Stratton & Spencer’s Commercial College, Milwaukee. He went to Beloit in the 
employ of Proctor & Stone, reaper manufacturers, and was afterward secretary of 
that company. Was subsequently engaged in manufacturing binders and mowers in 
Milwaukee; was for two years general eastern agent for Wm. Deering & Co., of 
Philadelphia; returned to Sheboygan in 1886 to engage in the manufacture of 
furniture, where he has since resided. He established the Wisconsin Chair Co. 
at Port Washington in 1888, which at present employs 400 hands. He was chief 
clerk of the senate in 1875, and for ten consecutive years previous held the 
different clerkships in the assembly; was for several sessions bookkeeper and 
assistant clerk. He was elected to the state senate in 1896, receiving 8,263 
votes, against 5,346 votes for James Leahy, democrat-populist 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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