Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....BROWN, WEBSTER EVERETT
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Author: Halford Erickson

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. MEMBERS OF THE FIFTY-EIGHTH
CONGRESS. UNITED STATES. REPRESENTATIVES.

TENTH CONGRESSOINAL DISTRICT. Ashland, Florence,
Forest, Iron, Langlade, Lincoln, Marathon,
Oneida, Price, Shawano, Taylor, Vilas and Wood counties.
Population in 1900-190,975.

WEBSTER EVERETT BROWN (Rep.), of Rhinelander, was bom on a
farm in Madison county, New York, July 16th, 1851; came
with his parents to Wisconsin in 1857; lived on a farm
till 17 years of age. His elementary education was
received in the common schools of Portage county; prepared
for college at Lawrence University, Appleton, Wis.; in
1870 entered the Wisconsin State University and graduated
with the class of 1874; was married Dec. 26th, 1877, to
Juliet D. Meyer, also a graduate of the Wisconsin State
University with the class of 1875; took up the lumber
business in 1875 at Stevens Point, Wis., continuing at
that point till the fall of 1882, when the business was
transferred to Rhinelander, Wis., where he is still
operating with his brothers; has been chairman of town and
county boards; also member of school board and has served
two terms as mayor of the city of Rhinelander; was elected
to the Fifty-seventh and Fifty-eighth congress, and re-
elected to the Fifty-ninth, receiving 29,393 votes,
against 14,121 for Wells M. Ruggles (Dem.), 790 for Albert
B. Crawford (Soc. Dem.), and 619 for David W. Emerson
(Pro.).

Additional Comments:
Erickson, Halford.  The Blue Book of the State of
Wisconsin. Madison: Democrat Printing Co., State Printer,
1905.

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