Biographical Sketches:  FRANK S. BAUER


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The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin Compiled and Published under
the direction of J. D. Beck, Commissioner of Labor and Industrial
Statistics 1907.

The Wisconsin Blue Book. VII. Biographical Sketches. The Wisconsin
Legislature. Assembly, p. 1139

HERMAN L. KERN, Speaker; C. E. SHAFFER, Chief Clerk; W. S. IRVINE,
Sergeant-at-Arms.

The assembly consists of 100 members. They are chosen biennially and
receive $500 for their services during their term. The speaker is
chosen by the members and receives an additional $500 for his services
as speaker. The assembly of 1907 contains 76 republicans, 19
democrats, and 5 social democrats.

Dodge County. (p. 1146) First District. The towns of Ashippun, Clyman,
Emmett, Herman, Hubbard, Hustisford, Lebanon, Leroy, Lomira, Rubicon,
Shields, Theresa and Williamstown, the 5th and 6th wards of the city
of Watertown, the villages of Lomira and Theresa, the cities of
Horicon and Mayville. Population, 1900 - 23,636.

FRANK S. BAUER (Dem.) was born on a farm at Leroy, Wis., in 1856;
settled at Knowles, Wis., in 1879, where he resided twenty-three
years, and where he was appointed the first postmaster, holding the
office for eight years; was station agent and operator for seventeen
years, during which time he also ran a general store; is at present in
the mercantile business at Leroy; he is also engaged in farming; was
elected member of the assembly in 1904, and re-elected in 1906,
receiving 2,552 votes against 1,327 votes for Jacob Steiner (Rep.).