Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....Edwards, Wynn 
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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.

FOND DU LAC COUNTY.

Second District. The towns of Alto, Ashford, Auburn, Byron, Eden,
Eldorado, Lamartine, Metomen, Oakfield, Ripon, Rosendale, Springvale,
Waupun, the village of Brandon and the city of Ripon, and the North
ward of the city of Waupun.  Population in 1895—23,937.

WYNN EDWARDS (Rep.), of Rosendale, Fond du Lac county, was born
November 9, 1842, in Denbighshire, North Wales, received a liberal
English education in Wales, and took a business course in Bryant &
Stratton's college at Chicago, Illinois; came to this country in May,
1859, settling at Rosendale, Wisconsin, which has been his residence
ever since; is by occupation a farmer, and has taken an active
interest in the tramp problem, and through his influence a tramp
workhouse has been erected in Fond du Lac; was treasurer of the town
of Rosendale seven years, and postmaster during the Harrison
administration and is now serving his sixth year as chairman of the
town; enlisted in Company F, 21st Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, and
served with General Sherman all through the Atlantic campaign, until
wounded August 7, 1864, by gun shot wound; joined the regiment again
at Savannah and marched through the Carolinas. He was elected to the
assembly in 1896, receiving 3,515 votes, against 1,844 for J. William
Burns, democrat, and 105 for Irving Hemmingway, 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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