Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....Welch, Charles H. ************************************************ 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, 10:18 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. MILWAUKEE COUNTY. First District. The First, Third and Seventh wards of the city of Milwaukee. Population in 1895—20,871 CHARLES H. WELCH (Rep.), of Milwaukee, Milwaukee county, was born May 2, 1856, at Lake Village, New Hampshire, and was educated in the public schools at Vineland, New Jersey, and Janesville, Wisconsin; resided at Janesville from 1856 to 1872, and at Milwaukee from 1877 to the present time; is by occupation a law and general stenographer; was official court reporter in the courts of the city of Milwaukee from 1887 to 1892, since which time he has been official court reporter for the First Judicial Circuit, comprising Racine, Kenosha and Walworth counties. He was elected to the assembly in 1896, receiving 2,949 votes, against 2,315 for Charles S. Hart, democratic and populist fusion candidate. 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/welch1268gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/wifiles/ File size: 2.0 Kb