Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....Schellenberg, Herman  
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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.

OZAUKEE COUNTY.

Population in 1895—16,545.

HERMAN SCHELLENBERG (Dem.), of Horn’s Corners, was born August 18, 1842, in 
Saxe Altenberg, Germany, coming to the United States in 1855. He was educated 
in the public schools of Germany. He was first employed for three years in a 
toy store in New York city, but came to Wisconsin in 1859 and worked as a 
blacksmith’s apprentice until in 1861 he went to the Superior copper region, 
where he worked in the mines until 1865. He then operated a farm in Trenton, 
Washington county, until 1872, and then operated a general store in Horn’s 
Corners, which he still conducts, together with a cheese factory, since 
established. He was a supervisor of Trenton in 1866 and 1867, of the town of 
Cedarburg, Ozaukee county, in 1872 and 1873, and chairman of said town in 1874 
and 1875; has been town clerk since 1885, justice of the peace for twenty 
years, and postmaster of Horn’s Corners post office since its establishment in 
1875. He has for six years been secretary of the Cedarburg Driving Association. 
He was elected to the assembly in 1894, receiving 1,417 votes, against 743 for 
D. E. McGinley, republican, and 656 for Louis C. Kieker, independent democrat, 
being a majority over both of 18 votes; was re-elected to the assembly in 1896, 
receiving 1,835 votes, against 1,505 for William H. Rintelmann, republican, and 
212 for F. X. Kloety, populist.



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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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