Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....CARY, WILLIAM JOSEPH
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Author: Beck, J. D.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. MEMBERS OF THE SIXTY-FIRST
CONGRESS.

REPRESENTATIVES.


FOURTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT.

The 2d, 3d, 4th, 5th, 7th, 8th, 11th, 12th, 11th, 15th,
16th, 17th and 23d wards of tlie city of Milwaukee and the
towns of Franklin, Greenfield, Lake, Oak Creek and
Wauwatosa, the village of Cudahy, the cities of South
Milwaukee, West Allis and Wauwatosa in Milwaukee county.
Population in 1900 — 183,510.

WILLIAM JOSEPH CARY (Rep.) was born March 22, 1865, at
Milwaukee, Wis. At the age of thirteen he was left an
orphan, with four younger sisters and a brother. The five
younger children were placed in an orphan asylum, and
young Cary went to work as a cash-boy in Chapman's store.
He left to become a telegraph messenger, and at the age of
eighteen he became a full fledged operator, having studied
the key after hours, and when not running messages. At
nineteen he had saved enough money to take the four
younger children from the asylum, and give them a home of
their own. In 1900 he was elected alderman from his ward,
on account of the demand for a reform representative, and
in 1902 was re-elected. In 1901 he was elected sheriff of
Milwaukee county, and in 1900 was elected congressman to
succeed Theobald Otjen, who had held the office in the
fourth district for twelve years; was re-elected in 1908,
receiving 15,509 votes against 9,783 votes for Edmund J.
Melius (Soc. Dem.),  and 14,370 votes for Wm. J. Kershaw
(Dem.).

Additional Comments:
Beck, J. D. . The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin.
Madison, Wis.: Democrat Printing Co., State Printer, 1909.

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