Biographical Sketches:  E. F. NELSON


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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.

Florence, Forest and Langlade Counties. (p. 1149) One District.
Population, 1900 - 17,146.

E. F. NELSON (Rep.) was born at Menasha, Wis., September 13, 1868;
moved with his parents to Oshkosh in 1880, where he attended school
until 1887. From 1887 to 1890 was a student at the Denison University
at Granville, Ohio; also studied for a time at the University of
Wisconsin; in 1891 he became manager of the Wisconsin Mfg. Co., at
Elmhurst, at that time a branch establishment of the same name whose
headquarters was at Oshkosh. In 1893 he purchased the establishment at
Elmhurst, and has since run the business himself; has been a member of
the republican county committee for several years and has been a
delegate to several republican state conventions. Was elected member
of assembly in 1905, and re-elected in 1906, receiving 2,386 votes
against 749 for Edward Nordman (Dem.).