Biographical Sketches: WILLIAM JOSEPH CARY ********************************************************************* USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net/ File Contributed by Lori Niemuth, dawnlea@ticon.net ********************************************************************* 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. Members of the Sixtieth Congress. Representatives, p. 1117 Fourth Congressional District. The 2d, 3d, 4th, 5th, 7th, 8th, 11th, 12th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th and 23d wards of the city of Milwaukee and the towns of Franklin, Greenfield, Lake, Oak Creek and Wauwatosa, the village of Cudahy, the cities of South Milwaukee, West Allis and Wauwatosa in Milwaukee county. Population 1900 - 183,540. WILLIAM JOSEPH CARY (Rep.) was born March 22, 1865, at Milwaukee, Wis. At the age of thirteen he was left an orphan, with four younger sisters and a brother. The five younger children were placed in an orphan asylum, and young CARY went to work as a cash-boy in Chapman's store. He left to become a telegraph messenger, and at the age of eighteen he became a full fledged operator, having studied the key after hours, and when not running messages. At nineteen he had saved enough money to take the four younger children from the asylum, and give them a home of their own. In 1900 he was elected alderman from his ward, on account of the demand for a reform representative, and in 1902 was re-elected. In 1904 he was elected sheriff of Milwaukee county, and in 1906 was elected congressman to succeed Theobald Otjen, who had held the office in the fourth district for twelve years, receiving 12,231 votes against 8,759 votes for Edmund J. Melms (Soc. Dem.) and 8,656 votes for Thomas J. Fleming (Dem.).