Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....PEAVEY, H. H. January 12, 1881 - 
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REPRESENTATIVES

ELEVENTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT

Douglas, Bayfield, Ashland, Iron, Vilas, Burnett, Polk,
Washburn, Sawyer, Rusk, Price, Taylor, Oneida and Lincoln
counties.

H. H. PEAVEY was born in Adams, Minnesota, January 12, 1881;
moved to Redwood Falls, Minn., when five years of age and was
brought up on a farm nine miles south of that town. At
seventeen he attended the high school at Redwood Falls, Minn.,
and attended the Pillsbury school at Owatonnak, Minn. for
the two years following. He worked for the Beatrice Creamery
company of Lincoln, Nebraska, for two years and then for a
wholesale fruit and vegetable house in Wichita, Kansas, and
Enid, Okla., in 1903. He engaged in the real estate business,
in Redwood Falls, Minn., from 1904 to 1906; real estate and
town sites at Carlyle, Cresbard and Lowry, S. D., and moved
to Washburn, Wisconsin in 1910. He was elected alderman in the
spring of 1911, and mayor in 1912. He is American born and a
Progressive Republican in politics; served as delegate to the
convention in Faulk county, S. D., during 1906. Elected to the
Wisconsin Assembly in 1912. In 1915 became owner and editor of
the Washburn News, published at Washburn Wisconsin. In May,
1917, he volunteered his services to Governor Philipp and was
commissioned a captain of infantry. Recruited Bayfield, County
Company of 176 men accepted at Camp Douglas and designated as
"D" Company 6th Wisconsin Infantry. During re-organization
of 32nd Division at Waco, Texas, October, 1917, was assigned
with 125 original men as "B" Company of the 107 Military
Police. Embarked to France in January, 1918. Was relieved of
command by sickness while on the Belfort front in June, 1918,
and was invalided back to the United, States in September,
1918. Was assigned to the U. S. Army Hospital, Des Moines,
from which received discharge January, 1919. Re-entered
newspaper field as editor of the Washburn News, being
retained in this position when, elected to Congress November
7th, 1922, having previously defeated Congressman A. .P.
Nelson in the September primaries.

Additional Comments:
The Wisconsin Blue Book. The State Printing Board, 1923. 598-
640. 

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