Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....NORCROSS, PLINY
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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.

ROCK COUNTY.

Second District. Bradford, Harmony, Johnston, La Prairie,
and the city of Janesville. Population, 1900— 17,091.

PLINY NORCROSS (Rep.), of JanesvWe, was born in Templeton,
Worcester county, Massachusetts, November 16, 1838;
received a common school and academic education; is by
profession a lawyer; came to Wisconsin In 1852 and settled
in La Grange, Walworth county, whence he removed in 1865
to Janesville, where he now resides; enlisted April 16,
1861, in the 1st Wisconsin Vol. Inf., a three months'
regiment,-—and afterwards was captain of Co. K, 13th Wis.
Vol. Inf., participating in all the engagements of the
regiment; has been district attorney of Rock county four
years, city attorney two years and mayor of Janesville two
years. Mr. Norcross has not practiced law since 1883, but
has been engaged In various kinds of manufacturing
business. In June, 1904, he was elected department
commander of the state of Wisconsin G. A. R. He was
elected to the assembly in 1865 and again in 1884; was re-
elected to the assembly in 1904, receiving 1,687 votes
against 1,296 votes for J. W. St. John (Dem.), and 179
votes for T. J. McKligne (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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