Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....MARQUARDT, AUGUST F.
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Author: Halford Erickson

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

IRVINE L. LENROOT, Speaker; C. O. MARSH, Chief Clerk;
Nicholas REVELER, Sergeant-at-Arms.

The assembly consists of 100 members. They are chosen
biennially and receive $500 for their services during the
term. The speaker is chosen by the members and receives an
additional $500 for his services as speaker. The assembly
of 1905 contains 85 republicans, 11 democrats, and 4
social democrats.

MARATHON COUNTY.

Second District. The towns of Easton, Eldron, Harrison,
Hewitt, Knowlton, Kronenwetter, Norrie, Pike Lake, Plover,
Texas', Wausau, and Weston, and the city of Wausau.
Population, 1900—21,697.

AUGUST F. MARQUARDT (Rep.), was born at Bandekow, Pommern,
Germany, January 8th, 1850, and came to the city of Wausau
July 1, 1866, when a boy of 17. He was for many years
engaged in logging, lumbering and mercantile occupations
and now owns a beautiful farm partly within the city
limits, and has been for many years a practical farmer.
He has held many official positions in the city and
county. He represented his ward on the common council of
the city for eighteen years; was member of the county
board for sixteen years; was president for two years of
the Marathon County Agricultural Society and was vice
president of the State Agricultural Society in 1899; was
elected sheriff of Marathon county in the fall of 1900,
and served for two years, and was elected member of the
assembly in 1904, receiving 2,872 votes against 2,017
votes for Joseph Reiser (Dem.), and 135 votes for A. R.
Buck-nan (Pro.).

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

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