Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....Sheffer, George P. 
************************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/wi/wifiles.htm
************************************************

File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by:
Tina Smith Vickery http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00025.html#0005998 October 30, 2014, 8:21 pm

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.


LAFAYETTE COUNTY.

Population in 1895—21,488.

GEORGE P. SHEFFER (Rep.), of New Diggings, was born November 19, 1S44, in the 
township of New Diggings, Lafayette county; was educated in the common schools 
of New Diggings; has always lived in the town of New Diggings; is by occupation 
a farmer; was a soldier in the late war, serving three years in Co. H, 33d 
Wis.; has been town treasurer of his town three times, and also member of the 
town board of supervisors of New Diggings; was elected to the assembly in 1896, 
receiving 2,849 votes, against 2,269 votes for Charles Burris, democrat, and 
115 votes for Nelson Ladue.

Additional Comments:
The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin Compiled and Published under
the direction of Henry Casson, Secretary of State 1897.


File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/wi/history/bluebook/1897/sheffer1260gbs.txt

This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/wifiles/

File size: 1.8 Kb