Biographical Sketches:  FRED TIES


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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.

Green County. (p. 1151) One District. Population, 1900 - 22,719.

FRED TIES (Rep.) born in the village of Hagedorn, Westphalia, Prussia,
Jan. 4, 1841; was educated in the public schools at Schwalenberg,
Lippe Detmold. He came with his parents to America in 1858 and settled
in the town of Spring Grove, Green county, Wis., where he worked on a
farm. On the 16th day of October, 1861 he enlisted in Co. B, 18th Wis.
Vol. Inf., and fought under Generals Grant and Sherman from Shiloh to
the surrender of the Rebel army under Johnston at Raleigh, N.C., and
took part in the grand review on May 24, 1865. During the war he was
successively promoted to corporal, sergeant, first sergeant, and
second lieutenant; was wounded in a bayonet charge at Jackson, Miss.,
May 14th, 1863, and two days later taken prisoner and sent to Libby
prison, where he was paroled. At the end of the war he came back to
the town of Spring Grove and bought the farm which he still owns. He
served his town a number of times as assessor; three times as
chairman; was elected county clerk of Green county in 1892 and re-
elected in 1894, and again in 1896. At the end of this service he
moved back to his farm and in October, 1899, bought a residence in
Brodhead, into which he removed the following month. In November,
1900, the county board elected him superintendent of poor and trustee
of Green county Insane Asylum, and re-elected him to the same position
in 1903 and 1906 and now serves as secretary of said board of
trustees. In July, 1903 and again in 1907 he was elected a member of
the board of education in Brodhead, and is now the president of said
board. Was elected member of the assembly in 1904, and re-elected in
1906, receiving 1,522 votes against 1,501 for Willis Ludlow (Dem.).