Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....Youmans, Clarion A ************************************************ 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, 12:46 pm Source: The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin, 1897 Author: Compiled and Published under under the direction of Henry Casson TWENTY-FIFTH DISTRICT. Clark and Marathon counties. Population, 1895—57,940. CLARION A. YOUMANS (Rep.), of Neillsville, Clark county, was born October 14, 1847, at Kenosha, Wisconsin. He was educated in the common schools and In the law school of the State University, from which he graduated in 1876, He resided in Kenosha until 1852, then in Arlington, Columbia county, until 1872, In which year he went to Neillsville, where he has since resided. He was raised on a farm, but for a few years before attending the law school had been in the mercantile business at Neillsville. Was county judge of Clark county in 1877, and district attorney of Clark county from 18S2 to 1885. He has been interested in farming, lumbering and flouring enterprises, and was from 1890 to 1893 president of the Clark County Agricultural society. He has been since 1876 engaged in the practice of law at Neillsville. He was elected to the state senate in 1894, receiving 5,607 votes, against 3,557 for H. P. Graham, democrat, and 518 for Peter Truax, prohibition. He was a member of the judiciary, railroads and roads and bridges committees during session of 1895. 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/youmans1209gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/wifiles/ File size: 2.0 Kb