Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....STORM, BYRON O. ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/wi/wifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Tina Vickery tsvickery@gmail.com October 27, 2007, 8:44 pm 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. WAUSHARA COUNTY. One District. Population, 1900—15,972. BYRON O. STORM was born Nov. 27, 1851, in the city of Whitewater, Wisconsin. At the age of five years he removed with his parents to Wautoma in Waushara county, and has since that time been a resident of that county. He was educated in the public schools of Wautoma, and at the age of eighteen learned the tinner's trade, and during the ten years following devoted his time to the hardware business at Wautoma and Plain-field. He moved to the latter village in 1877. For the past ten years he has been living upon his farm adjacent to the village of Plainfield. He has been for five successive years president of the village board of the village of Plainfieid, and during the past six successive years' has been supervisor from said village and a member of the school board. In the fall of 1903 he was unanimously elected chairman of the county board. HS was elected to the assembly in the fall of 1904 by a vote of 2,899, as against 538 for P. B. Rawson (Dem.), and 105 for O. A. Olson (Pro.). Additional Comments: Erickson, Halford. The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin. Madison: Democrat Printing Co., State Printer, 1905. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/wi/history/bluebook/1905/bios/storm447nbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/wifiles/ File size: 2.3 Kb