Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....BROWN, WEBSTER E. 
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Author: Published Under the Direction of Halford Erickson, Commissioner of Labor and Industrial Statistics, 1903.

REPRESENTATIVES.

TENTH DISTRICT. Ashland, Florence, Forest, Iron, Langlade,
Lincoln, Marathon, Oneida, Price, Shawano, Taylor, Vilas and
Wood counties. Population in 1900—190,975.

WEBSTER E. BROWN (Rep.), of Rhinelander, was born in Madison
county, N. Y., July 16, 1851; came with his parents to
Wisconsin in 1857, living for n time in Columbia county,
then moving to Portage county, where he lived on a farm till
seventeen years of age, receiving an elementary education in
the common schools of this county; later he took preparatory
studies at Lawrence University, Appleton, Wis., and a
business course at the Spencerian Business College,
Milwaukee; in 1870 entered the University of Wisconsin at
Madison, and graduated with the class of 1874 ; in 1875
entered the lumber business with his brother in Stevens
Point; transferred their business to Rhinelander in 1882.
operating at the present time as Brown Brothers Lumber
Company. Was elected to congress in 1900, and again in 1902,
receiving 19,554 votes against 14,937 for Burt Williams
(Dem.), and 659 for W. D. Badger (Pro.).

Additional Comments:
The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin. Compiled and
Published Under the Direction of Halford Erickson,
Commissioner of Labor and Industrial Statistics, 1903. 1069
- 1117.

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