Biographical Sketches:  Theobald Otjen


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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 722-733.

REPRESENTATIVES.  FOURTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT. 

The 1st, 2d, 3d, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 11th, 12th, 14th, 15th,
16th, l7th, 18th and 19th wards of the City of Milwaukee (all the
city, except the 10th, 13th, 20th and 21st wards) and the towns of
Franklin, Greenfield, Lake and Oak Creek, in Milwaukee county.
Population in 1900 - 245,397. 

THEOBALD OTJEN (Rep.), of Milwaukee, was born Oct. 27, 1851, at West
China, Mich. He was educated at an academy at Marine City, Mich., and
at private school in Detroit. He graduated from the Michigan
University law department in 1875. He resided at Milwaukee from 1870
to 1872, and has resided there continuously since 1882. He was yard
foreman of the rolling mills during the former period, and since 1875
has been all attorney at law. He was the village attorney of Bay View,
Wisconsin, from 1883 to 1886, alderman of Milwaukee and member of the
Milwaukee public library and museum board from April, 1887, to April,
1894. He was elected to the house of representatives in 1894, 1896,
1898 and on Nov. 6, 1900, receiving 24,637 votes against 21,691 votes
for George W. Peck (Dem.), 2,991 for Robert Meister, Social Democrat,
and 496 for Edward W. Drake, Prohibitionist.