Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....ANKERSON , PETER ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/wi/wifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Tina Vickery tsvickery@adelphia.net March 13, 2007, 12:49 am Author: The State Printing Board, Compiled and Published. OCONTO COUNTY PETER ANKERSON (Rep.) was born in Germany, Jan. 21, 1874 and immigrated to Wisconsin at the age of 7 years. He was educated in the common schools of Brown county and worked as a farm hand and in the woods until 1896 when he began farming for himself, and has lived on the same farm in Oconto county since 1908. fie has been a member of the Society of Equity 12 years and President of his county union the last six years, served as town clerk two years, town supervisor four years and member of the county board one year. He was elected to the assembly in 1920 without opposition and was re-elected in November, 1922, receiving 3,336 votes to 1,752 votes for Carl Riggins (Dem.). Additional Comments: The Wisconsin Blue Book. The State Printing Board, 1923. 598 - 640. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/wi/history/bluebook/1923/bios/ankerson120nbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/wifiles/ File size: 1.4 Kb