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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.


GREEN COUNTY. One district. Population, 1900—22,719.

FRED TIES (Rep.), born in the village of Hagedorn,
Westphalia, Prussia, Jan. 4th, 1841; was educated in the
public schools at Schwalenberg, Lippe Detmold. He came
with his parents to America in 1858 and settled in the
town of Spring Grove, Green county, Wis., where he worked
on a farm. On the 16th day of October, 1861, he enlisted
in Co. B, 18th Wis. Vol. Inf., and fought under Generals
Grant and Sherman from Shiloh to the surrender of the
Rebel army under Johnston at Raleigh, N. C, and took part
in the grand review on May 24th, 1865. During the war he
was successively promoted to corporal, sergeant, first
sergeant, and second lieutenant ; was wounded in a bayonet
charge at Jackson, Miss., May 14th, 1863, and two days
later taken prisoner and sent to Libby prison, where he
was paroled. At the end of the war he came back to the
town of Spring Grove and bought the farm which he still
owns. He served his town a number of times as assessor;
three times as chairman; was elected county clerk of Green
county in 1892 and re-elected in 1894, and again in 1896.
At the end of this service he moved back to his farm and
in October, 1899, bought a residence in Brodhead, into
which he moved the following month. In November, 1900, the
county board elected him superintendent of poor and
trustee of Green County Insane Asylum, and re-elected him
fo the same position in 1903, and now serves as secretary
of said board of trustees. In July, 1903, he was elected
a member of the board of education in Brodhead, and is now
the president of said board. Was elected member of
assembly in 1904, receiving 2,474 votes against 2,039 for
Willis Ludlow (Dem.), and 175 for William Smiley (Pro.),
and 105 for Peter R. Burns (Soe. Dem.).

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

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