Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....Withee, Levi ************************************************ 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, 1:23 pm Source: The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin, 1897 Author: Compiled and Published under under the direction of Henry Casson THIRTY-SECOND DISTRICT. La Crosse and Trempealeau counties. Population, 1895—65,573. LEVI WITHEE (Rep.), of La Crosse, La Crosse county, was born in Norridgewock, Me., October 26, 1834, and received a common school education in Maine* came to Wisconsin in 1853, and settled at La Crosse; has for the most of the time resided there since; is by occupation a lumberman; has not before held public office; was elected state senator in 1892, receiving 5,802 votes, against 5 293 for George Y. Freeman, democrat, 644 for John N. Jones, people’s party, and 38 for C. H. Van Wormer, prohibitionist; was re-elected state senator in 1896, receiving 9,545 votes, against 4,739 votes for Herman E. Simpson, democrat. 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/withee1216gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/wifiles/ File size: 1.6 Kb