Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....Merrill, Addison 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

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.

JACKSON COUNTY.
Population, 1895 — 16,722.
ADDISON W. MERRILL (Rep.), of Alma Center, was born May 30, 1842, in Lowell, 
Mass.; was educated in the district school of Princeton, Green Lake county, 
Wis.; came to Wisconsin with his parents in 1848, settling in what is now Green 
Lake county; lived at Princeton until 1862, and since 1865 in Jackson county; 
is a farmer by occupation; was member of town board of Garden Valley in the 
years 1886-87-88-89-93-94 and is at present a member; has also served on 
Jackson county board of supervisors; has been a member of the Jackson County 
Soldiers’ Relief Commission since 1891; in 1862 he enlisted in Co. H, 18th Wis. 
Inf.; was under Grant through the Vicksburg campaign and under Sherman in the 
Atlanta campaign; was in the famous defense of Allatoona, October 5, 1864, and 
marched to the sea; was discharged at Milwaukee, August 3, 1865; was elected to 
the assembly in 1896, receiving 2,767 votes, against 751 votes for John Levis, 
democrat, and 1 for J. B. Miller.

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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