Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....RIDGWAY, ELDO T. December 17, 1880 - ************************************************ 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 11, 2007, 6:53 pm Author: The State Printing Board, Compiled and Published. MEMBERS OF THE SENATE TWENTY-SECOND SENATORIAL DISTRICT Kenosha and Walworth counties. ELDO T. RIDGWAY (Rep.) is a physician and surgeon of Elkhorn. He was born in Knox, Indiana, Dec. 17, 1880, and was educated in the Amboy, Ind., public school and high school and Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital of Chicago, from which he was graduated in 1906. He began the practice of medicine in Wautoma in 1907, remaining there flve years and then removed to Elkhorn in 1912. He served as mayor of Elkhorn 1918-20, and member of the board of education in 1920. He was elected to the senate in 1920, receiving 21,956 votes to 3,673 for Oliver P. Murwin (Dem.), and 584 for William C. Dean (Pro.). --- Additional Comments: The Wisconsin Blue Book. The State Printing Board, 1923. 598 - 640. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/wi/history/bluebook/1923/bios/ridgway36nbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/wifiles/ File size: 1.4 Kb