Biographical Sketches:  CHARLES L. VALENTINE 


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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 762

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.

ROCK COUNTY. First District. The towns of Janesville, La Prairie and
Rock, and the city of Janesville. Population in 1900-16,218. (District
changed. See new apportionment, following biographies.)

CHARLES L. VALENTINE (Rep.), of Janesville, was born in Genesee
county, N. Y., Oct., 1846, came to Wisconsin in 1849 and was educated
in the Janesville schools. He is an abstracter of titles, was register
of deeds for Rock county twenty years, 1875 to 1895, and secretary of
the Wisconsin Commission of Fisheries fourteen years. He was a member
of Co. L, Fifth Wisconsin Inf. in the war of the Rebellion and lost
his right foot in the battle at Spottsylvania C. H., Va., May 12,
1864. He was elected to the assembly in 1900 by 2,064 votes to 1,350
for William Brinkman (Dem.), and 93 for W. J. Knights (Pro.).