Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....READER, WILLIAM
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Tina Vickery tsvickery@gmail.com December 10, 2007, 4:15 pm

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.

FLORENCE, FOREST AND LANGLADE COUNTIES.

One District. Population, 1900—17,146.

WILLIAM READER (Rep.) was born in the town of Stockbridge,
Calumet county, Wisconsin, May 16, 1864; received a common
school education; went to Langlade county in 1882, where
he followed farming in the summer and worked in the lumber
woods during the winter. During the time
intervening from the time between 1882 and 1900, he
cleared from nature's forest a large farm in the town of
Peck. He served that town as its chairman for seven years
and resigned that office to attend to the duties of
register of deeds of Langlade county, to which office he
was elected in 1900. He filled that office for eight
years and was elected to the assembly in 1908, receiving
3,396 votes against 1,788 votes for Edward Nordman (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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