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

REPRESENTATIVES.

FOURTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT. The 2d, 3d, 4th, 5th, 7th,
8th, 11th, 12th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th and 23d wards of the
city of Milwaukee and the towns of Franklin, Greenfield,
Lake, Oak Creek and Wauwatosa, the village of Cudahy, the
cities of South Milwaukee and Wauwatosa in Milwaukee county.
Population in 1900— 183,540.

THEOBALD OTJEN (Rep.), of Milwaukee, was born Oct. 27, 1851,
at West China, Mich. He was educated at an academy at Marine
City, Mich., and a private school in Detroit. He graduated
from the Michigan University law department in 1875. He
resided at Milwaukee from 1870 to 1872, and has resided
there continuously since 1882. He was yard foreman of the
rolling mills, during the former period, and since 1875 has
been an attorney at law. He was the village attorney of Bay
View, Wisconsin, from 1883 to 1886, alderman of Milwaukee
and member of the Milwaukee public library and museum board
from April, 1887, to April, 1894. He was elected to the
house of representatives in 1894, 1896, 1898, 1900 and 1902,
receiving 15,101 votes against 13,468 votes for John F.
Donovan (Dem.), and 5,167 votes for H. W. Bestorius (Soc.
Dem.).

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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