Biographical Sketches:  EDWARD H. SPRAGUE


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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.

Walworth County. (p. 1173) One District. Population, 1900 - 29,259.

EDWARD H. SPRAGUE was born at Waterloo, Grant county, June 8, 1848.
His early education was received in the primitive log school house and
later at "Lancaster Institute," a private academy at Lancaster, to
which city his mother, who had become a widow, had removed with her
family. Shortly after the close of the civil war, he went into Dakota,
Montana and British America on a trapping expedition from which he
returned in 1867 to enter the Platteville Normal school, where he was
a student until June 24, 1869, when he graduated with the first Normal
class in this state. He taught as principal of the high school there
in 1873. After holding that position four years he resigned and
entered the law department of the State University. Immediately after
graduation in 1878 he located at Elkhorn for the practice of his
profession. He has served three years as district attorney of Walworth
county, a number of terms on the county board, as president of the
village, and for more than twenty years on the board of education. He
founded the Charles E. Sprague Free Library, which was named in honor
of his deceased son. In addition to the practice of law, Mr. Sprague
is actively interested in farming, manufacturing, and in several
mercantile establishments. He was elected a member of the assembly in
1906, receiving 2,603 votes against 1,128 for Lawrence Clancy (Dem.)
and 174 for James Hague (Pro.).