Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....POWELL, JOHN W.
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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.

FOND DU LAC COUNTY.

Second District. The towns of Alto, Ashford, Auburn,
Byron, Eden, Eldorado, Lamartine, Metomen, Oakfield,
Osceola, Ripon, Rosendale, Springvale and Waupun, the
village of Brandon, the north ward of the city of Waupun,
and the city of Ripon. Population, 1900—23,848

JOHN W. POWELL (Rep.), of Rosendale, Wisconsin, was
born in the town of Chelsea, Jo Davis; county, Ill.,
Sept. 12, 1846; was educated by his father, Rev. J. N.
Powell, and in Peterborough Academy,
Peterborough N.Y., and in Yates Polytechnic Institute,
Chittenango N. Y. Graduated from Rush Medical
college, Chicago, Ill., in 1882, and has been engaged
in the practice medicine since that time in
Rosendale, Fond du county, Wis; member of the Wisconsin
State Medical Society and of the Fond du Lac county
Medical Society and for seven years president of the Fond
du Lac Board of Pension Examining Surgeons. Was
elected membc assembly in 1904, receiving 2,993 votes
against 2,102 for Col James Bannon (Dem.), and 85 votes
for Westby B. Webb (Pro.).

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

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