Biographical Sketches:  John Jacob Esch


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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 723-724.

REPRESENTATIVES.  SEVENTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT.

Buffalo, Eau Claire, Jackson, La Crosse, Monroe, Pepin and Trempealeau
counties. Population in 1900 - 468,042.

JOHN JACOB ESCH (Rep.), of La Crosse, was born near Norwalk, Monroe
county, Wis., March 20, 1861. He was educated in the public schools of
Milwaukee and Sparta, Wis.; entered the State University In 1878, and
graduated from the modern classical course in 1882. The next four
years he spent in reading law and teaching at Sparta; was offered the
principalship of the high school, but declined and entered the
University Law School, graduating in the class of 1887. From this time
to the present he has been engaged in practice at La Crosse as a
member of the firm of Winter, Esch & Winter. In 1883 he organized the
Sparta Rifles, afterwards known as Co. I, 3d Regiment W. N. G., and
was its captain until 1887. Also helped organize Co. M, 3d Regiment W.
N. G., at La Crosse, and was at one time its captain. Never held but
one elective office, that of city treasurer of Sparta, and this for
only one year. Has always been a republican. In 1898 he was elected to
Congress, and in 1900, receiving 22,715 votes against 11,254 for John
P. Rice (Dem.), and 868 for C. L. Allen (Pro.).