Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....ESCH, JOHN JACOB
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Author: Beck, J. D.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.

SEVENTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT.

Buffalo, Clark, Eau Claire, Jackson, La Crosse,
Monroe, Pepin and Trempealeau counties. Population in
1900—193,890.

JOHN JACOB ESCH (Rep.), of La Crosse, was born near
Norwalk, Monroe county, Wis., March 20, 1851. He was
educated in the public schools of Milwaukee and Sparta,
Wis.; entered the state university in 1878, and graduated
from the modern classical course in 1882. The next four
years he spent in reading law and teaching at Sparta; was
offered the principalship of the high school, but declined
and entered the university law school, graduating in the
class of 1897. From this time to the present he has been
engaged in the practice of law at La Crosse as a member of
the firm of Winter & Esch. In 1883; he organized the
Sparta Rifles, afterwards known as Co. I, 3d Regiment W.
N. G., and was at one time its captain. He also helped
organize the Gateway City Guards of La Crosse, now Co. M,
3d Regiment W. N. G. Never held but one elective office,
that of city treasurer of Sparta, and this for only one
year. Has always been a Republican. Was elected to the
56th, 57th, 58th, 59th, 60th and 61st congresses,
receiving 25,202 votes against 11,466 for B. F. Keeler
(Dem.), and 372 for W. Gray (Soc. 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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