Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....ESCH, JOHN JACOB ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/wi/wifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Tina Vickery tsvickery@adelphia.net March 17, 2007, 5:04 pm Author: Published Under the Direction of Halford Erickson, Commissioner of Labor and Industrial Statistics, 1903. REPRESENTATIVES. SEVENTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT. Buffalo, Clark, Eau Claire, Jackson, La Crosse, Monroe, Pepin and Trempealeau counties. Population in 1900—193,890. JOHN JACOB ESCH (Rep.), of La Crosse, was born near Norwalk, Monroe county, Wis., March 20, 1861. He was educated in the public schools of Milwaukee and Sparta, Wis.; entered the State University in 1878, and graduated from the modern classical course in 1882. The next four years he spent in reading law and teaching at Sparta; was offered the principalship of the high school, but declined and entered the University Law School, graduating in the class of 1887. From this time to the present he has been engaged in the practice of law at La Crosse as a member of the firm of Winter, Esch & Winter, now Winter & Esch. In 1883 he organized the Sparta Rifles, afterwards known as Co. I, 3d Regiment W. N. G., at La Crosse, and was at one time its captain. Never held but one elective office, that of city treasurer of Sparta, and this for only one year. Has always been a republican. In 1898 and 1900 he was elected to congress, and again in 1902, receiving 18,494 votes against 9,543 for Wm. Cornelian (Dem.), and 925 for F. R. Sebenthal (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. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/wi/history/bluebook/1903/bios/esch37gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/wifiles/ File size: 2.1 Kb