Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....Welton, Chauncey B. 
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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

TWENTY-SIXTH DISTRICT.
The county of Dane. Population, 1895—65,669.

CHAUNCEY B. WELTON (Rep.) was born September 1, 1844, at Sharon, Ohio. He was 
educated in the common schools and the academy at Weymouth, Ohio; came to 
Wisconsin in May, 1855, but returned to Ohio in 185S; went to Michigan at the 
close of the war and moved from there to Wisconsin in 1877; resided at Rockton, 
Vernon county, from 1877 to 1882, at Windsor from 1882 to 1883,and has since 
been a resident of Madison. Was in the mercantile business at Allegan, Mich., 
in 1873-4; Kalamazoo, Mich., in 1875-6; Rockton, Wis., 1878 to 1881; Windsor, 
Wis., 1882-3; and in Madison since 1884. He was clerk of the town of 
Whitestown, Vernon county, in 1881, and commander of the Department of 
Wisconsin G. A. R., in 1892; served in the war of the Rebellion in Co. 1, 103 
Ohio Vol. Inf., from August 21, 1862, to close of war. He was elected to the 
state senate in 1896, receiving 9,016 votes, against 6,607 votes for Wm. 
Charleton, democrat, and 438 votes for J. B. Smith, prohibitionist.

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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