Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....MINOR, EDWARD S. 
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Author: Published Under the Direction of Halford Erickson, Commissioner of Labor and Industrial Statistics, 1903.

REPRESENTATIVES.

NINTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT. Brown, Door, Kewaunee,
Marinette, Oconto and Outagamie counties. Population in
1900—179,097.

EDWARD S. MINOR (Rep.), of Sturgeon Bay, was born in
Jefferson county, N. Y., in 1840. He came with his parents
to Wisconsin in 1845, first settling in the town of
Greenfield, Milwaukee county. In 1857 he removed to Door
county. He received his education in the common schools and
at a private academy. In 1861 he enlisted as a private
soldier in Company G, 2d Wisconsin volunteer cavalry,
participating in all the raids, expeditions, engagements and
battles' in which the regiment took part during the war. He
was promoted to corporal-sergeant, second and first
lieutenant, and as such was mustered out with his regiment,
December, 1865. After his return home from the army he
became a merchant in Door county. He continued in this
business till the spring of 1884, at which time he was
appointed superintendent of the Sturgeon Bay and Lake
Michigan Ship Canal, which position he held for seven years.
Mr. Minor was elected to the Wisconsin assembly in 1878, and
was re-elected in 1880 and 1881. He was elected to the state
senate in 1883 and 1885, and was president pro tempore of
that body during the latter term. He was also a member of
the Wisconsin fish commission for four years. He has held
numerous local offices at various times and was mayor of the
city of Sturgeon Bay in 1895. He wiih elected to congress in
1894, 1896, 1898, 1900 and again in 1902, receiving 15,958
votes against 11,479 for Edward Decker (Dem.), and 518 for
T. W. Lomas (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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