Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....ESCH, JOHN JACOB
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Author: Halford Erickson

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

SEVENTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT; Buffalo, Clark, Eau
Claire, Jackson, La Crosse, Monroe, Pepin and Trempealeau
counties. Population in 1900-193,890.

JOHN JACOB ESCH (Rep.), of La Crosse, was born near
Norwalk, Monroe county, Wis., March 20, 1861. He was
educated in the public schools of Milwaukee and Sparta,
Wis.; entered the State University in 1878, and graduated
from the modern classical course in 1882. The next four
years he spent in reading law and teaching at Sparta; was
offered the principalship of the high school, but declined
and entered the University Law School, graduating in the
class of 1887. From this time to the present he has been
engaged in the practice of law at La Crosse as a member of
the firm of Winter & Esch. In 1883 he organized the Sparta
Rifles, afterwards; known as Co. I, 3d Regiment W. N. G.,
and was at one time its captain. He also helped organize
the Gateway City Guards of La Crosse, now Co. M, 3d
Regiment W. N. G. Never held but one elective office, that
of city treasurer of Sparta, and this for only one year.
Has always been a republican. Was elected to the 56th,
57th, 58th, and also the 59th congresses, receiving 25,505
votes against 11,271 for Norris Bacheller (Dem.), 963 for
Geo. A. Markham (Pro.), and 409 for Henry Leiuenkugel
(Soc. Dem.).

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

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