Biographical Sketches:  WILLIAM DISCH


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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.

Milwaukee County. (p. 1160) Third District. The seventeenth ward of
the city of Milwaukee, the towns of Oak Creek and Lake, the village of
Cudahy, and the city of South Milwaukee. Population, 1900 - 22,236.

WILLIAM DISCH (Rep.) was born in Glarus, Switzerland, Jan. 12, 1840;
came to American in 1853; lived in New Jersey one year; removed to
Milwaukee in 1854 where he has since resided; received his education
in the common schools; is a retired farmer; served two years and ten
months in the Civil War, being a private in Company K, 24th Wis.
receiving his honorable discharge at the close of the war; was a
night-watch at the state capitol two years, policeman and janitor five
years; never sought or held an elective office; was elected to the
assembly in 1906, receiving 1,801 votes against 1,214 votes cast for
A. T. Neumann (Soc. Dem.).