Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....SCHMIDT, GEORGE 
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TREMPEALEAU COUNTY

GEORGE SCHMIDT (Rep.) was born in Switzerland, June 26, 1857,
and came to the United States with his parents, settling in
Buffalo county, Wisconsin, May, 1867. He attended the common
school and Fountain city graded schools, also the Galesville
University now Gale College. H'e taught school in the
district and graded school for 11 years, working on the farm
during the vacation time. He was elected to the office of
county superintendent of schools of Buffalo county in the fall
of 1886 and continued in that office until 1895. In the fall
of 1895 he purchased a farm in the town of Arcadia,
Trempealeau county, which he managed for 9 years when he
removed to a smaller farm near the village of Arcadia where he
still resides. He has held various minor offices, town clerk,
town treasurer and chairman of the town board in 1920 and was
elected supervisor of assessment which office he held for 6
years declining re-election. He was appointed assessor of
incomes for district 28 comprising Buffalo, Pepin and
Trempealeau counties in 1912 when that office was created and
continued in same to January, 1923. He was nominated and
elected to the assembly without opposition.



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

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