Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....MEYERS, AUG. G.
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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.

SHEBOYGAN COUNTY.

Second District. The towns of Greenbush, nerman, Holland,
Lima, Lyndon, Mitchell, Mosel, Plymouth, Rhine, Russell,
Scott, Sheboygan Falls, Sherman, and Wilson, the villages
of Cedar Grove, Elkhart Lake, and Sheboygan Falls, and the
city of Plymouth. Population, 1900—25,202.

AUG. G. MEYERS (Rep.), was born in the town of Herman,
Sheboygan Co., Wis., Jan. 1st, 1864. After attending the
public schools he followed farming for a time; later took
a course in Janesville College, after which he resumed
farming; in 1898 he accepted a position as demonstrator
with a Milwaukee Fur Co. at the Trans-Mississippi
Exposition at Omaha, Neb.; he later became a traveling
salesman, following that occupation for about four years,
traveling in nearly every state in the Union. He later
purchased the "Washington House" at Howards Grove, and is
at present conducting the hotel; he is also postmaster of
Howard's Grove. Was elected member of assembly in 1904,
receiving 3,017 votes against 2,340 for E. E. Eastman
(Dem.).

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

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