Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....KNEEN, E. J.
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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.

LA CROSSE COUNTY.

Second District. The towns of Bangor, Barre, Burns,
Farmington, Greenfield, Hamilton, Holland, Onalaska,
Shelby and Washington, the villages of Bangor and West
Salem, the 3d, 8th, 17th, 18th and 21st wards of the city
of La Crosse, and the city of Onalaska. Population,
1900—21,157.

E. J. KNEEN (Dem.) was born in the town of Burns, La
Crosse county, Wisconsin, February 24, 1867. He received
his education in the public schools at Bangor, Wisconsin,
which place he left at the age of seventeen, moving to
Kansas City where he worked in brick yards for four years,
thence moving to Minneapolis where he was engaged in the
wholesale fruit business until 1908, when he moved back to
Bangor, Wisconsin, engaging in the general merchandise
business. His fellow townsmen have shown him their
confidence by electing him president of the village in
1905. Mr. Kneen has always taken an active part in all
public improvements, and is now manager of the Bangor and
Ashton Telephone Company, which through his efforts has
been built up to one of the largest exchanges In La Crosse
county. Mr. Kneen is also a member of the board of
directors of the Bangor State Bank. He was elected to the
assembly in 1908, receiving 2,288 votes against 1,958 for
V. S. Keppel (Rep.), and 115 for M. C. Ashberg (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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