Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....MARQUARDT, AUGUST F.
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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.

MARATHON COUNTY.

Second District. The towns of Easton, Eldron, Harrison,
Hewitt, Knowlton, Kronenwetter, Norrie, Pike Lake, Plover,
Texas, Wausau and Weston, and the city of Wausau.
Population, 1900—21,697.

AUGUST F. MARQUARDT (Rep.) was born at Banrdekow, Pommern,
Germany, January 8th, 1850, and came to the city of Wausau
July 1st, 1866, when a boy of 17. He was for many years
engaged in logging, lumbering, mercantile occupations and
farming and now owns a beautiful farm partly within the
city limits. He is at present a director of the Citizens
State Bank of Wausau. He has held many official positions
in the city and county. He represented his ward on the
common council of the city of Wausau for eighteen years;
was president of the council 1900-1901; was member of the
county board for sixteen years; was president of The
Marathon County Agricultural Society for two years; was
vice-president of the State Agricultural Society in 1899;
was elected by the common council as member of the board
of water commissioners May 1st, 1905, for a tercn of three
years; on November 7th, 1906, he was appointed by the
mayor of the city as a member of the park board for a term
of five years; was elected sheriff of Marathon county in
the fall of 1900 and served for two years; was elected
member of the assembly in 1904, 1906, and was re-elected
in 1908, receiving 2,736 votes against 2,537 for A. J.
Blowman (Dem.), and 178 for J. C. Chiber (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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