Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....EVANS, David Jr. 
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Author: Published Under the Direction of Halford Erickson, Commissioner of Labor and Industrial Statistics, 1903.

ASSEMBLYMEN. 

IRVINE L. LENROOT, Speaker; C. 0. MARSH, 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
1003 contains 75 republicans and 25 democrats.

WAUSHARA COUNTY. One District. Population, 1900—15,972.

DAVID EVANS, JR. (Rep.), of the town of Aurora, Waushara
county, was born Sept. 17, 1848, in Caernarvon, North Wales.
He came with his parents to America in 1853, settling at.
Strong's Landing (where now is built the city of Berlin), and
was educated in the common schools of the state. He served as
a private in Co. C, Forty-first regiment, and Co. B, Forty-
ninth regiment, Wis. Vol. Inf., during the war of the
rebellion. Since the war he served on the United States
revenue cutter as gunner, and quartermaster on the following
ships and stations "John A. Dix," Lakes Superior and Huron;
"Andrew Johnson," Lake Michigan; "Robert Morris," Mobile bay
and Gulf of Mexico; is a member of G.A.R. Post, No, 4, Berlin,
of which he has been commander. He pursued dairying and
general farming, He is a director oŁ the Berlin National Bank.
He was elected to the assembly Feb. 21, 1899, at a special
election held to fill the vacancy caused by the death of
William Hughes, and was again elected in 1900 and re elected
in 1902, receiving 2,222 votes against 143 for B. T. Davenport
(Dem.), and 1 scattering.

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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