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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.

JEFFERSON COUNTY.

Second District. The towns of Aztalan, Jefferson, Koshkonong, Lake
Mills, Mill- ford, Oakland, Sumner and Waterloo, the villages of Lake
Mills and Waterloo, and the cities of Fort Atkinson and Jefferson.
Population in 1895—18,030.

GILBERT RUTHERFORD (Rep.), of Lake Mills, Jefferson county, was born
January 12, 1861, in Oakland, Jefferson county, Wisconsin, and was
educated in the district schools and the Lake Mills high school; has
always resided in the town of Oakland and is a farmer by occupation;
was assessor of the town of Oakland in 1889, 1890, 1891 and 1895; was
director of the Oakland Fire Insurance company from 1893 to 1896; was
an unsuccessful candidate for the office of sheriff of Jefferson
county on the republican ticket in 1890, for assessor in 1892, and for
chairman of the town board of supervisors in 1894; was elected school
treasurer of his district in 1884, 1887, 1890, 1893 and 1896; marshal
of the Jefferson county fair in 1892, and was elected member of the
board of trustees of the fair association in 1894, 1895 and 1896; was
a delegate to the republican state contention in Milwaukee in 1896. He
was elected to the assembly in 1896, receiving 2,084 votes, against
2,046 for Lewis Benson, democrat.

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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