Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....HAMMILL, FRANK
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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.

BAYFIELD, SAWYER AND WASHBURN COUNTIES.

One District. Population, 1900—23,500.

FRANK HAMMILL (Rep.) was born at Parma, Jackson county,
Michigan, December 23, 1857, and was educated in the Parma
schools. At the age of eighteen he was employed as
locomotive fireman on the Michigan Central railway. Coming
to Wisconsin in 1878 he located in Baraboo, where he
continued his work as locomotive fireman and engineer
until 1883 when he went to the C., St. P., M. & O. railway
as engineer. He continued with this company until May,
1903, when he was forced on account of poor health to
resign. December 1, 1902, he located at Spooner and served
that village as president of the board during the years of
1903-4-5-6-7. In 1904 he purchased the Spooner Advocate
and Spooner Register, two weekly papers published at
Spooner, and consolidated them under the name of The
Spooner Advocate, which he still owns and publishes. He
has always been a Republican, is now and has been for
twenty-five years a member of the Brotherhood of
Locomotive Engineers. In 1908 he was elected to the
assembly, receiving 4,033 votes against 1,004 for Alfred
Warden (Dem.), and 211 for James Kenney (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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