Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....WHITSO, EDWARD W. 
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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.

LINCOLN COUNTY One district. Population in 1900—16,269.

EDWARD W. WHITSO, (Rep.), was born in Queens county, N. Y.,
April 1, 1851, and came to Wisconsin with his parents the same
year. They settled in Marquette county, where he grew up and
attended the common schools, completing his education in an
academy in Madison. After living at other points in Lincoln
county some years he settled in Tomahawk in 1889, engaging in
mercantile and lumber business. He has been mayor of Tomahawk
and a member of the Tomahawk school board five years. Was
elected to the assembly in 1900 and again in 1902, receiving
1,870 votes against 1,510 for Robert Theilman (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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