Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....EGAN, WALTER D.
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Author: Beck, J. D.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.

THE WISCONSIN LEGISLATURE.

ASSEMBLY.


L. H. BANCROFT, Speaker; O. E. SHAFFER, Chief Clerk; W. S.
IRVINE, Sergeant-at-Arms.

The assembly consists of 100 members. They are chosen
biennally and receive $500 for their services during the
term. The speaker is chosen by the members and receives an
additional $500 for his services as speaker. The assembly
of 1909 contains 76 republicans, 19 democrats, and 5
social democrats.

DOUGLAS COUNTY.

Second District. The towns of Amnicon, Brule, Gordon,
Hawthorne, Highland, Maple, Nebagamon, Solon Springs,
South Range, Summit and Superior, the village of
Nebagamon, and the 1st, 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th wards of
the city of Superior. Population, 1900— 18,295.

WALTER D. EGAN (Rep.) was born in Chicago in 1888 and
educated in the common schools of that city. Securing his
first position with the C., B. & Q. railway, where he
remained for several years in the capacity of checker, his
services being so satisfactory that Mr. McMullen, agent of
the Western Transit Company line of steam boats, who was
well acquainted with his worth, offered him a position
with his company. Mr. Egan was soon promoted to head
foreman for all the Western Transit boats in Chicago,
where he remained until he removed to Superior to accept a
position with Walsh & Company, as dockmaster on the Great
Northern docks. In the year of 1900 the Great Northern
railway, after attempting to perform their own work on
their docks, and being greatly hampered by strikes and
labor troubles, accepted the proposition of Mr. Egan to
form a co-operative or profit-sharing company for the
handling of their freight. Largely through the labor and
ability of Mr. Egan this experiment has proved successful
and since that time his company has employed at times as
many as 500 men without any strikes or labor trouble and
to the entire satisfaction of the Great Northern Railway
Co., as well as the men. Mr. Egan incorporated 100
laboring men into a co-operative, profit-sharing company,
he taking the position of general manager. This company
then made freight handling contracts with the Great
Northern Railway Co., and steamboat lines on a tonnage
basis. All profits are divided equally among the men who
comprise the company, and thus the laborer is fully and
completely rewarded. Mr. Egan is a consistent friend of
labor. He understands and responds to all their just
needs, has always remained in the ranks as a toiler and
thus is strongly seated in the regard and affection of all
those who toil. He has strong and advanced views upon
cooperative and economic questions. In politics he is a
staunch conservative Republican. He was elected to the
assembly in 1908, receiving 3,045 votes against 268 for H.
W. Jackson (Soc. Dem.), and 197 for C. A. Perkns (Pro.).

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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