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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.


WALWORTH COUNTY.

First District. The towns of East Troy, Lafayette, La Grange, Lyons, Spring 
Prairie, Sugar Creek, Troy and Whitewater, and the village of Elkhorn, and the 
city of Whitewater.  Population in 1895—14,338.

WILLIAM HENRY HURLBUT (Rep.), of Elkhorn, Walworth county, was born January 8, 
1837, at Venice, in Cayuga county, New York. Was educated at Groton Academy, 
Groton, New York, and at Cortland Academy, Homer, New York; graduated from the 
Eclectic Medical Institute at Cincinnati, Ohio, in February, 1868. Came to 
Wisconsin in 1856, settling at Clinton, Rock county, where he resided until 
1865; lived at Beloit from January, 1865, until April, 1867; at Elkhorn, 
Walworth county, since July, 1870; was engaged in teaching school and farming 
until January, 1865; in the grocery business while in Beloit, and in the 
practice of medicine since March, 1868. He was supervisor from Elkhorn in 1879; 
United States Examining Surgeon for pensions since 1877, and attending 
physician at the Walworth County Insane Asylum since 1883. He was elected to 
the assembly in 1896, receiving 2,510 votes, against 884 for David W. Agnew, 
democrat, 157 for William B. Ellis, prohibitionist, and 90 for George Chaffee, 
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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