Biographical Sketches:  JOHN JACOB ESCH


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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. Members of the
Sixtieth Congress. Representatives, p. 1118

Seventh Congressional District. Buffalo, Eau Claire, Jackson, La
Crosse, Monroe, Pepin and Trempealeau counties. Population, 1900 -
193,890.

JOHN JACOB ESCH (Rep.), of La Crosse, was born near Norwalk, Monroe
county, Wis., March 20, 1861. He was educated in the public schools of
Milwaukee and Sparta, Wis.; entered the state university in 1878, and
graduated from the modern classical course in 1882. The next four
years he spent in reading law and teaching at Sparta; was offered the
principalship of the high school, but declined and entered the
university law school, graduating in the class of 1887. From this time
to the present he has been engaged in the practice of law at La Crosse
as a member of the firm of Winter & Esch. In 1883 he organized the
Sparta Rifles, afterwards known as Co. I, 3rd Regiment W.N.G., and was
at one time its captain. He also helped organize the Gateway City
Guards of La Crosse, now Co. M, 3rd Regiment W.N.G. Never held but one
office, that of city treasurer of Sparta, and this for only one year.
Has always been a republican. Was elected to the 56th, 57th, 58th,
59th and 60th congresses, receiving 18,042 votes against 6,779 for
Chas. F. Hille (Dem.).