Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....VIEBAHN, C. 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.

JEFFERSON COUNTY.

First District. The towns of Concord, Farmington, Hebron,
Ixonia, Milford, Palmyra, Sullivan and Watertown, the
village of Palmyra, and the 1st, 2d, 3d, 4th end 7th wards
of the city of Watertown. Population, 1900—17,377.

C. F. VIEBAHN (Dem.) was born in 1842, near Cologne,
Germany. In 1852 he came with his parents to Wisconsin,
where, until 1862, his home was on a farm. He was educated
in the public schools, by private instruction and study,
arid by attending the state university for three years.
During two winter terms his course as a student was
interrupted by teaching a country school. He studied law
and was admitted to practice, but finally decided to adopt
teaching as a profession. As an educator he has
successively held the following positions: Principal of a
graded school at Sauk City, county superintendent of Sauk
county, principal of the south side school at Manitowoc,
county superintendent of Manitowoc county, and city
superintendent and principal of the high school at
Watertown. The last position he held for twenty-three
years. Mr. Viebahn has been president of the Wisconsin
Teachers' Association, is a life member of the National
Educational Association, has often been a member of the
official board of visitors to the state university and to
state normal schools; has frequently conducted teachers'
institutes, and has at different times, presented many
papers and addresses at educational gatherings. He was the
first teacher of Wisconsin who received the unlimited
state certificate. While he was county superintendent, he
prepared and introduced a course of study for country
schools, and this was the first course of the kind in
Wisconsin. Mr. Viebahn is at present chairman of the state
board of examiners for state teachers' certificates, of
which board he has been a member for many years. He was
elected to the assembly In 1908, receiving 2,071 votes
against 1,528 for B. F. Wieman (Rep.), and 32 for Theodore
Zick (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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