Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....Polley, Horace N. 
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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.


EAU CLAIRE COUNTY.

Second District. The towns of Bridge Creek, Brunswick (including
Porters Mills village), Clear Creek, Drammen, Fairchild, Lincoln,
Ludington, Otter Creek, Pleasant Valley, Union and Washington, and the
village of Fairchild and the city of Augusta, and the Fourth and
Seventh wards of the city of Eau Claire.

Population in 1895—16,596.

HORACE N. POLLEY (Rep.), of Bridge Creek, Eau Claire county, was born
at Massena, St. Lawrence county, New York, March 10, 1842; was
educated in the public schools of St. Lawrence county, New York, and
Columbia county Wisconsin; came west with his parents in 1848,
settling at West Point, Colombia county, in this state, where he
resided until 1858, when he returned to St. Lawrence county, New York,
remaining there until the spring of 1861, when he returned to his
former home at West Point, Wisconsin; removed to the town of Bridge
Creek, Eau Claire county, in 1886, and has been a resident there since
that time; is a brick mason by trade and a farmer by occupation* haa
been assessor of the town of Bridge Creek from 1885 to the present
time; enlisted as a musician in Company "H," 11th Regiment, Wisconsin
Infantry, October 24, 1861, and was honorably discharged on the
twelfth day of February 1864, at Indianola, Texas, by reason of re-
enlistment as veteran volunteer under general order 191; was promoted
to the position of principal musician of the same regiment February
29, 1864, and was honorably discharged September 16 1865, at Mobile,
Alabama. He was elected to the assembly from the Second district of
Eau Claire county in 1896, receiving 2,245 votes, against 1,288 for
Obadiah Works, democrat, populist and prohibitionist, and 1 for Mark
Sebenthal.



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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