Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....Putnam, Henry Clay 
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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

SEVENTEENTH DISTRICT.

Green and Lafayette counties, and the towns of Avon, Beloit, Clinton, Newark, 
Plymouth. Spring Valley, Turtle, and the village of Clinton, and the city of 
Beloit, in the county of Rock. Population, 1895 -- 61,000.

HENRY CLAY PUTNAM (Rep.), of Brodhead, was born at Newark, Ohio, in 1847; came 
to Wisconsin in 1849. His first home was in Decatur, Green county; has resided 
in that township ever since. Received a common school education; enlisted at 
the age of sixteen years in Company B, 1st Wisconsin Cavalry, serving in the 
ranks; was in the campaign against Longstreet in East Tennessee; engaged in the 
battles of Mossy Creek and Dandridge, in all the battles during Sherman’s 
Atlanta campaign up to July 1, 1864; was on detached service with the troops 
that drove Wheeler and Forest from Tennessee in 1864; was engaged with his 
regiment in the last raid of the war—“Wilson’s raid”—from Tennessee river to 
Macon, Georgia, participating in the engagements at Montgomery, Selma, Columbus 
and West Point, Georgia, which last place was captured and many prisoners 
taken. Returning home, was a commercial traveler for nine years; from 1880 to 
1896 was in lumber business and farming. Is now president of the Green County 
Bank of Brodhead. Was president of the village of Brodhead in 1883-4; was 
elected to the assembly in 1890 from the district composed of the south half of 
Green county, and re-elected in 1892 from the new district, embracing the 
county. He was elected to the senate in 1894, receiving 7,129 votes, against 
3,214 for Edward Drotning, democrat; 741 for F. R. Derrick, prohibitionist, and 
526 for E. P. Hassinger, populist.

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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