Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....THORESON, SIMON 
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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.

BURNETT AND POLK COUNTIES. One District. Population,
1900—25,279.

SIMON THORESON (Rep.), of Grantsburg, Burnett county, Wis.,
was born in Norway in 1849, and came to Polk county, Wis.,
with his parents in 1862, settling on a homestead, where he
worked and attended country school up to 1867; worked in the
lumber woods and on the rivers up to 1876, when he engaged
in the mercantile business at Grantsburg, Wis. He has been
director of the village school for sixteen years. He has
been village president and chairman of the republican county
committee for four years, chairman of the county board for
seven years. He is vice-president of the First Bank of
Grantsburg, and was alternate to the national convention in
1896 at St. Louis; in 1902 was elected to the assembly,
receiving 2,403 votes against 6 for 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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