Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....HOST, ZENO M. 
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Author: Published Under the Direction of Halford Erickson, Commissioner of Labor and Industrial Statistics, 1903.

STATE OFFICERS.

INSURANCE COMMISSIONER.

ZENO M. HOST (Rep.), of Milwaukee, was born of German
parentage In Lyons, Walworth county, Wisconsin, on July 1st,
1869. In February, 1883, He removed with his parents to
Milwaukee. With the exception of two terms of night school
at the Spencerian Business College of Milwaukee, he received
his education in the public schools of Walworth county.

At the age of fourteen he found employment in a spice mill
and afterwards as a clerk in a retail grocery store. In
November, 1884, he was employed as office boy in a wholesale
and retail coal company's office, and worked himself up step
by step until he was given the position of head bookkeeper
which he held until July 1st, 1891. September 1st, 1891, he
became bookkeeper for a building and loan association, where
he remained until December 31st, 1894. In the winter of '95
he organized the Wisconsin National Loan & Building
Association and was made a director and its secretary, which
position he still holds. In 1893 he began writing fire
insurance in connection with the building and loan business
. In August, 1900, he was chosen secretary of the Republican
State Central Committee for a term of two years. He never
held public office but was very active in fraternal
organizations. From June 17, 1901, to June 17, 1902, he was
Grand Chancellor of the Knights of Pythias of Wisconsin and
is now High Treasurer of the Independent Order of Foresters,
as well as Assistant Adjutant General on the staff of Gen.
Charlton D. Lisle, Commander of Wisconsin Brigade Uniform
Rank, Knights' of Pythias. He was elected commissioner of
insurance November 4, 1902, receiving 192,936 votes against
133,426 for Wm. H. Ferber (Dem.), 9,450 for H. H. Moe
(Pro.), 17,171 for Arnold Zander (Soc. Dem.), and 874 for
Oliver Maury (Soc. Labor).

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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