Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....Overbeck, Henry, Jr. 
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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.

DOOR COUNTY.

Population, 1895—16,969.

HENRY OVERBECK, Jr., (Rep.), of Sturgeon Bay, was born February 2, 1853, at 
Tonawanda, N.Y.; was educated in the common schools; came to Wisconsin in 1854; 
lived at Ahnapee until 1887, and since then at Sturgeon Bay; is by occupation a 
telegraph operator and insurance agent, and has been manager of the Western 
Union at Sturgeon Bay since 1887; owned a half interest in the Ahnapee Record 
from 1882 to 1885; was chairman of the eighth congressional district Republican 
committee from 1894 to 1896, and is still a member of the committee; Is serving 
his second term as chairman of county committee; was elected to the assembly in 
1896, receiving 2,298 votes, against 1,004 for Joseph Harris, fusion candidate 
of the democrats, populists and independent republicans.

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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