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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.

RACINE COUNTY.

Second District. The towns of Burlington, Caledonia, Dover, Mt. Pleasant, 
Norway, Raymond, Rochester, Waterford, Yorkville, Union Grove and the Seventh 
ward of the city of Racine.
Population in 1895—19,647.

THOMAS H. MOSHER (Rep.), was born February 17, 1834, at Saratoga Springs, N. 
Y.; came to Wisconsin with his parents in 1841 and settled in what was then 
Milwaukee county. At the age of 16 he began life in the pine woods of northern 
Wisconsin, where he earned sufficient money to give himself the best common 
school and business college education the country then afforded. He then went 
south, entering the employ of the Louisiana Stock Co., with which concern he 
remained for three years, traveling through all the southern states, Mexico and 
the West India Islands, He then commenced merchandising in Louisiana on his own 
account, but upon the breaking out of the war, he left there and came back to 
Wisconsin in 1860. He offered the recruiting officer $200 to permit him to 
enlist in the army, but was refused owing to having lost part of one hand. He 
entered the government employ, however, serving in the quartermaster s 
department until near the close of the war, when he started an extensive 
mercantile establishment at Montgomery, Ala. Disposing of his interests there in
1866, he came home and purchased a large farm near Milwaukee; he entered 
mercantile life again at Kneeling, which has been his home ever since, 
merchandising and farming being his occupations. For many years he was one of 
the most extensive dairymen in the state. For more than thirty years he has 
been very prominent in the politics of Racine county, taking an active part in 
all campaign, but always refusing office himself until 1896, when he was 
elected to represent the second assembly district of Racine county (a 
democratic district) by a majority of 648 votes, receiving 2,606 votes, against 
1,920 for Batty Glisten, democrat, and 157 for John Rhodes, 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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