Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....Sweeting, Charles W. 
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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.

MANITOWOC COUNTY.

First District. The towns of Cato, Chesterville, Liberty, Manitowoc, Manitowoc 
Rapids, Meeme, Newton and the city of Manitowoc.  Population in 1895—20,119.

CHARLES W. SWEETING (Rep.), of Clark’s Mills, Manitowoc county, was born 
September 27, 1854, in Syracuse, New York, and received a common, school 
education; came to Wisconsin in 1878; resided at Plymouth until 1882, since 
then at Cato, Manitowoc county; started the first successful cheese factory in 
the western part of the county, and has been manager of several cheese 
factories since that time; has been engaged in the broker business since 1884, 
handling butter, cheese and dairy supplies; has been president of the Manitowoc 
Dairy Board of Trade since 1891; has been a delegate to seventeen county 
conventions and member of the republican county committee for many years; was 
elected a delegate to the republican congressional conventions of 1892, 1894 
and 1896, and to the state conventions of 1892 and 1894, and was United States 
census enumerator in 1890; was an unsuccessful candidate for assemblyman in 
1894 in a strong democratic district; has been a progressive dairyman and 
active Republican for many years. He was elected to the assembly in 1896, 
receiving 2,500 votes against 1,679 for Adolph Rodewald democrat, and 141 for 
Walter Besant, 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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