Biographical Sketches:  JONAS SWENHOLT


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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 764

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.

SHAWANO COUNTY. Population, 1900--27,475. (District unchanged by
apportionment of 1901.) 

JONAS SWENHOLT (Rep.) of Shawano, was born In the town of Oconomowoc,
Waukesha county, Dec. 20, 1855, where his parents settled when coming
to this country from Norway in 1844. In 1863 the family moved to
Waupaca county, where the subject of this sketch grew up on a farm,
where he remained until 1880, when he started in mercantile business
in Wittenberg Shawano county, where he also conducted a sawmill and
dealt in lumber. He was postmaster at Wittenberg two terms, under
Hayes and Harrison. He also filled the offices of town clerk, town
treasurer, village treasurer and village supervisor. In 1894 he was
elected register of deeds for Shawano county, and was re-elected to
that office in 1896. Since 1898 lie has been in real estate business
and was elected to the assembly in 1900 by 3,243 votes, against 1,505
for H. R, McComb (Dem.).