Biographical Sketches:  Samuel S. Barney


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The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin Compiled and Published under
the direction of Wm. H. Froehlich, Secretary of State 1901.

page 723.

REPRESENTATIVES.  FIFTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT.

Sheboygan, Ozaukee, Washington and Waukesha counties, and the 10th,
13th, 20th and 21st wards of the city of Milwaukee, and the towns of
Granville, Milwaukee and Wauwatosa, and the villages of North
Milwaukee, East Mil-waukee, Whitefish Bay, and the city of Wauwatosa,
In Milwaukee county. Population in 1900 - 159,701.

SAMUEL S. BARNEY (Rep.), of West Bend, Washington county, was born
Jan. 31, 1846, at Hartford, Wis. He received his education in the
public schools and at Lombard University at Galesburg, Ill. He taught
at Hartford from 1869 to 1872, when he commenced the study of law with
the late attorney general, L. F. Frisby, and was admitted to practice
in 1872. He has ever since practiced law at West Bend, and is now
senior member of the firm of Barney & KuecheDmelster. He edited the
Washington County Republican, now the Hartford Press, at West Bend,
in 1872 and 1873; was superintendent of schools of Washington county
for four years, beginning Jan. 1, 1876. He was elected to the house
of representatives in 1894, 1896, 1898 and again in 1900, receiving
23,089 votes against 18,066 votes cast for Charles H. Welsse (Dem.).