Biographical Sketches:  CHARLES E. ESTABROOK


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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. 1163) Thirteenth District. The thirteenth ward
of the city of Milwaukee. Population, 1900 - 17,626.

CHARLES E. ESTABROOK (Rep.), of Milwaukee, was born near Platteville,
Grant county, Wisconsin, October 31st, 1847; educated at Platteville
Academy and the Normal School; moved from Platteville to Manitowoc in
1871, and for a year taught school, having charge of the first ward
public school; subsequently studied law and has been engaged in the
practice of his profession at Manitowoc and Milwaukee since January,
1874; enlisted in August, 1864, in Co. B, 43d Wisconsin Volunteer
Infantry, served with the regiment until discharged at the close of
the war, July, 1865; was city attorney of Manitowoc from April, 1877,
until December, 1880, resigning on being elected as member of
assembly; was a delegate to the national republican convention at
Chicago in June, 1884; was member of assembly in 1881, 1883 and 1885;
elected attorney general in 1886 and re-elected in 1888; removed to
Milwaukee in 1893, where he has since resided. In 1906 was again
elected member of assembly from the city of Milwaukee, receiving 1,224
votes against 593 for F. J. Gorski (Dem.) and 905 for H. F. Lutzen
(Soc. Dem.).