Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....Nowell, Winslow A. ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/wi/wifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Tina Smith Vickery http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00025.html#0005998 November 5, 2014, 3:32 pm Source: The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin, 1897 Author: Compiled and Published under under the direction of Henry Casson OFFICERS OF THE ASSEMBLY. WINSLOW A. NOWELL, chief clerk of the assembly, of Milwaukee, was born at Portsmouth, N. H., Jan. 31, 1840. He received a common school and academic education. Was in business employment as bookkeeper and cashier in the city of New York from 1856 until 1863, removing to Milwaukee during the latter year and engaging in mercantile business, and subsequently in paper manufacturing. His present occupation is that of a journalist. He was an alderman in 1872, commissioner of public works from 1873 to 1876, deputy United States marshal from 1878 to 1880, and postmaster at Milwaukee, by appointment of President Harrison, from Oct. 1, 1889, to. Dec. 31, 1893. From 1885 to 1889 he was secretary of the Republican State Central committee. He was chief clerk of the session of 1877, and was again elected to that position in 1895 and re-elected in 1897. Additional Comments: The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin Compiled and Published under the direction of Henry Casson, Secretary of State 1897. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/wi/history/bluebook/1897/nowell1328gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/wifiles/ File size: 1.7 Kb