Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....NELSON, E. 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.


FLORENCE, FOREST AND LANGLADE COUNTIES.

One District. Population, 1900—17,146.

E. F. NELSON (Rep.) was born at Menasha, Wis., September
13, 1868; moved with his; parents to Oshkosh in 1SS0,
where !he attended school until 1887. From 1887 to 1890
was a student in the Denison University at Granville,
Ohio; also studied for a time at the University cf
Wisconsin; in 1891 he became manager of the Wisconsin Mfg.
Co., at Elmhurst, at that time a branch establishment of
the same name whose headquarters was at Oshkosh. In 1893
he purchased the establishment at Elmhurst, and has since
run the business himself; has been a member of the
republican county committee for several years and has boon
a delegate to several republican state conventions. Was
elected member of assembly in 1904, receiving 3,108 votes
against 1,851 for Hugh R. Edwards (Dem.)

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

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