Biographical Sketches: KAPP E. RASMUSSEN ************************************************************************** USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net/ File Contributed by Tina S. Vickery, tsvickery@gmail.com *************************************************************************** The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin Compiled and Published under the direction of Wm. H. Froehlich, Secretary of State 1901. page 740 ASSEMBLYMEN. GEO. H. RAY, Speaker; W. A. NOWELL, Chief Clerk; A. M. ANDERSON, Sergeant-at-Arms. The Assembly consists of 100 members. They are chosen biennially and receive $500 for their service during the term. The Speaker Is chosen by the members and receives an additional $500 for his services as Speaker. The Assembly of 1901 contains 82 Republicans and 18 Democrats. BARRON COUNTY. Population, 1900-23,677. (This district unchanged by apportionment of 1901.) KAPP E. RASMUSSEN (Rep.) was born Oct. 17, 1860, in Island of Laland, Denmark; came to the United States In 1867, and settled at Pine Lake, Waukesha county; has also resided in Adams and Marquette counties, and in Barron county since 1881. He was educated in the common schools of Oxford and other schools of Marquette and Adams counties; read law three years, being admitted to the bar of Barron county in 1884; was clerk of the town of Stanford that year, city attorney of Rice Lake in 1892, and supervisor for first ward, Rice Lake, from 1893 to 1897. He was elected to the assembly In 1898 and re-elected in 1900, receiving 2,957 votes to 991 for Stone W. Sparling (Dem.).