Lacrosse County WI Archives Biographies.....Bryant, Benjamin French September 3, 1837 - 
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BENJAMIN FRENCH BRYANT, District Attorney of La Crosse County, was born at 
Rockland, Me., Sept. 3, 1837. He received his education at the common schools 
and at the Maine Wesleyan Seminary at Kents Hill, and Bowdoin College, at 
Brunswick, Maine. In June, 1861, he went to Huron Co., Ohio, where his parents 
had moved a few years previous. He enlisted in Co. A, 101st Ohio V. I., 
August, 1862, and served in the army of the Cumberland until the close of the 
war, being mustered out the latter part of June, 1865. He was Sergeant, First 
Lieutenant and Captain. After going to Ohio before the war, and upon returning 
after the war, he studied law and was admitted to the bar, at the session of 
the Huron Co. District Court, in the spring of 1866. He moved to La Crosse in 
May, 1868, and has practiced law here since that time. He held the office of 
County Judge for four years, receiving his appointment by the Governor in 
1870, to fill vacancy caused by a resignation. Was elected District Attorney 
in 1873. In April, 1875, he resigned this office and was appointed Pension 
Agent at this place. Held this position until July, 1877, when the office 
ceased to exist here by the consolidation of a number of pension agencies. In 
1877, he was re-elected as District Attorney, which office he has since held. 
In 1872, he was appointed Aid-de-camp on the Governor's Staff, with the rank 
of Colonel, by Gov. C. C. Washburn, and in 1878 he was appointed to the same 
position by Gov. W. E. Smith.

Additional Comments:
From History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin, 1881, p. 742.

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