Biographical Sketches:  DUNCAN McGREGOR


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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.

Grant County. (p. 1150) First District. The towns of Beetown,
Cassville, Clifton, Ellenborough, Glen Haven, Harrison, Hazel Green,
Jamestown, Lima, Paris, Platteville, Potosi, Smelser and Waterloo, the
villages of Cassville, Cuba City, Hazel Green and Potosi, and the city
of Platteville. Population, 1900 - 19,694.

DUNCAN McGREGOR (Rep.), of Platteville, Grant county, was born in
Prethshire, Scotland, in 1836, and came directly to Wisconsin with his
father's family in 1857. His preparatory education was obtained in
Perth Academy, and his collegiate in University and King's College,
Aberdeen, and Lawrence University, Appleton. For four years after
coming to Wisconsin he found employment in running the Wisconsin
river, farming in summer and teaching in winter. He enlisted from
Waupaca, where he had been principal of the high school, and was
commissioned captain of Co. A, 42d Wis. Inf. serving with his regiment
to the close of the war. In 1867 he was elected professor of
mathematics in the Platteville Normal School, the first normal school
established in the state, and remained in the school until June, 1904,
in all thirty-seven years. He was Institute conductor for the
Platteville school for nine years, and president for twenty-three. He
was elected member of assembly in 1904 and re-elected in 1906,
receiving 1,799 votes against 1,366 for James Dolan (Dem.).