Biographical Sketches:  WINSLOW A. NOWELL


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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 770



OFFICERS OF THE ASSEMBLY. 

WINSLOW A. NOWELL, of Milwaukee, chief clerk
of the assembly, was born at Portsmouth, N. H., Jan. 31, 1840. He
received a common school and academic education. Was In business
employment as bookkeeper and cashier In the city of New York from 1856
until 1863, removing to Milwaukee during the latter year and engaging
In mercantile business, and subsequently In paper manufacturing. His
present occupation Is that of a are Insurance agent and real estate
dealer. He was an alderman in 1872, commissioner of public works from
1873 to 1876, deputy United States marshal from 1878 to 1880, and
postmaster at Milwaukee, by appointment of President Harrison, from
Oct. 1, 1889, to Dec. 31, 1893. From 1885 to 1889 he was secretary of
the Republican State Central committee, and during the national
campaign of 1900 was chief of a bureau of the Republican National
committee. He was chief clerk of the sessions of 1877, 1895, 1897 and
1899, and was re-elected to the same position, without opposition, in
1901.