Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....BOLENS, HARRY W.
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MEMBERS OF THE SENATE

TWENTIETH SENATORIAL DISTRICT Ozaukee and Sheboygan
Counties.

HARRY W. BOLENS (Dem.) was born on January 13, 1864, and
has lived since 1879 at Port Washington except for six
years spent in Sheboygan, where he published the Sheboygan
Daily Journal. He is an inventor, manufacturer, and
farmer. For two terms beginning in 1898 he was alderman at
Port Washington, has been county supervisor and county
board chairman for several terms, and mayor for three
terms. Senator Bolens was the first president of the
Wisconsin Manufacturers Association (1910), and a charter
member (1898) and past president of the Wisconsin League
of Municipalities. He organized the first independent
military company in Wisconsin in the Spanish-American War,
and in 1917 organized the first Wisconsin company for the
World War. At that time also, he was chairman of Draft
District Board No. 2, chairman of the County Council for
Defense, and Fuel Administrator. He is serving for the
first time as member of the Legislature.

Address: 1242 Grand Ave., Port Washington.

Additional Comments:
Compiled by The Wisconsin Legislative Reference Library.
The Wisconsin Blue Book. Madison, Wisconsin: Democrat
Printing Company, 1933.


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