Eighteenth District.

The towns of Alto, Byron, Eldorado, Empire, Fond du Lac, Friendship, Lamartine, Metomen, Oakfield, Ripon, Rosendale, Springvale, Waupun, north ward of the city of Waupun, and the cities of Fond du Lac and Ripon, in the county of Fond du Lac. Population, 34, 145.

EDWARD COLMAN (Rep ), of Fond du Lac, was born in Rochester, New York, July 28, 18.8; received an academic education; is a farmer by occupation; came to Wisconsin in 1852 and settled in the town of Empire, where he has since resided, with the exception of ten years-'67 to '77- when he was a resident of the city of Fond du Lac as treasurer of the savings bank; he enlisted in Co. A, 18th regiment Wis. Vol. Inf., and was commissioned 1st lieutenant November 15, 1861; was wounded at Shiloh April 10, '62; commissioned as adjutant of the regiment in March, '63; engaged in the battle of Jackson, Miss,, and was wounded at the battle of Champion Hills in 1863; transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps and commissioned 1st lieutenant, promoted to captain in '64; was commissioned lieutenant-colonel of the 49th regiment Wis. Vol. in January, '65 and as colonel of the regiment in November, 1865; was superintendent of public property at Madison in 1866 and '67; trustee of Soldiers' Orphans' Home from '67 to '70; sheriff of Fond du Lac county in 1878-79; was elected state senator for 1882 and '83, recciving 2, 491 votes against 1,593 for David Whitton, democrat, 431 for I. Fay, greenbacker, and 117 for J.M. Bonnell, prohibitionist.

Nineteenth District.

Winnebago county. Population 42,741.

JOSEPH B. HAMILTON (Rep.), of Neenah, was born on the 10th of June, 1817, in Lansing, Tompkins county, New York; received an academic education; is a lawyer by profession; came to Wisconsin in 1849, and settled at Neenah, where he has since resided, excepting three years in the city of Oshkosh; was district attorney in 1852-3; county judge from 1864 to 1870; state senator in 1863-4; elected state senator for 1831-2, receiving 4,470 votes against 4,049 votes for Andrew Haben, democrat, and 529 votes for Milan Ford, greenbacker.

Twentieth District.

The county of Sheboygan, and the towns of Ashford, Auburn, Calumet, Eden, Forest, Marshfield, Osceola and Taycheedah, in the county of Fond du Lac. Population 46,916.

PATRICK HENRY SMITH (Dem.), of Plymouth, Sheboygan county, was born September 29, 1827, in the town of Royalton, Vermont; had a common school education; came to Wisconsin in 1847, and settled at Sheboygan, whence he removed to Plymouth in 1818; is a retired merchant; was the first town clerk of Plymouth; was postmaster from 1853 to 1857, and deputy United States marshal in 1850; has been alderman and president of the city council several times; in 1880 was appointed by Gov. Smith to investigate State Insane Asylum; was elected state senator for 1880 and '81, and reelected for 1882 and '83; receiving 2,807 votes against 2,545 for George End, republican, and 361 for V. B. Knowles, greenbacker.

Twenty-first District.

Marathon, Portage and Waupaca counties. Population 55,806. CHARLES F. CROSBY (Rep.), of Wausau, was born in the town of Waterloo, Jefferson county, Wisconsin, on the 12th day of December, 1847; he received an academic education and is a lawyer by profession; has resided in Wisconsin all his life, with the exception of four years in Minnesota; was district attorney of Rock county, Minn., two years; county judge of the same county, two years; was a member of the Minnesota assembly in 1874; was district attorney of Marathon county in 1877; was elected state senator for 1881, '82, receiving 6,028 votes against 4,951 votes for George W. Cate, democrat.

Twenty-second District.

Calumet and Outagamie counties. Population, 45,347.

JOHN L. PINGEL (Dem.), of Appleton, Outagamie county, was born in Domsuhl, Mecklenburg Schwerin, September 17, 1834; received a common school education; is a farmer; immigrated to this country in 1852, settling first in New York, whence he removed to Wisconsin in 1860, settling at Greenville; was chairman of town board in 1861, 78, 79 and '81; was town clerk in 1864, '65 and '76; was justice of the peace for eight years; was elected state senator for 1882 and '83, receiving 2,393 votes against 2,010 votes for B. T. Rogers, republican, and 486 for L. Perrot, democrat.

Twenty-third District.

Jefferson county and the 5th and 6th wards of the city of Watertown, Dodge county. Population, 34,247.

FREDERICK KUSEL (Dem.), of Watertown, was born in Domitz, Mecklenburg, Germany, November 1, 1839; received a common and private school education; is a hardware merchant; came to America in 1819, settling at Watertown; at the beginning of the war he was a resident of Galveston, Texas; he hastened north, and was appointed recruiting officer by Governor Salomon, and commissioned 1st lieutenant in company E, 20th regiment infantry, in 1862; was promoted to rank of captain, June 6, 1833; took active part in the Missouri and Arkansas campaigns, and in the siege of Vicksburg; he has held various local offices; was mayor of Watertown in 1872 and twice since; was elected state senator for 1881 and '82, receiving 4,300 votes, against 3,080 votes for J. B. Bennett, republican, and 83 for Geo. W. Bishop, greenbacker.

Twenty-fourth District.

Ashland, Barron, Bayfield, Burnett, Douglas, Polk and St. Croix counties. Population, 41,915.

JAMES HILL (Rep.), of Warren, St. Croix county, was born in Hillsborough, N. H., February 15, 1825; received a common school education; cane to Wisconsin in 1863, and settled at Warren, where he has since resided; is a farmer and grain dealer; served three years as member of the county board of supervisors; was a member of the assembly for 1878, '79 and '80; was elected state senator for two years in 1881, receiving 4,089 votes, against 2,236 votes for Wm. M. Blanding, democrat.

Twenty-fifth District.

The city of Madison, and the towns of Albion, Blooming Grove, Bristol, Burke, Cottage Grove, Christiana, Deerfield. Dunn, Dunkirk, Madison, Medina, Oregon, Pleasant Springs, Rutland, Sun Prairie, Vienna, Windsor and York, and the villages of Stoughton and Sun Prairie in Dane county. Population, 33,010.

GEORGE B. BURROWS (Rep.), of Madison, was born in Springfield, Windsor county, Vermont, October 20, 1832; received a common school and academic education; is a real estate dealer; came to Wisconsin in 1858, and settled at Sauk City, Sauk county, where he engaged in the banking business; came to Madison in 1865, where he has since resided; was state senator in 1877, 78, 79 and '80, and was re-elected for '81 and '82, receiving 4,394 votes, against 3,066 votes for William Welch, independent republican, and 122 votes for William Lalor, greenbacker.

Twenty-sixth District.

The towns of Berry, Black Earth, Blue Mounds, Cross Plains, Dane, Fitchburg, Mazomanie, Middleton, Montrose, Perry, Primrose, Roxbury, Springdale, Springfield, Verona, Vermont and Westport, in Dane county. Population, 20,194.

JOHN ADAMS (Dem.), of Black Earth, was born in Pulaski county, Kentucky, June 1, 1819; received a common school education; is a dealer in live stock; came to Wisconsin in 1840 and settled at Dodgeville, Iowa county; removed to West Blue Mounds in 1849, and to Black Earth in 1861; was postmaster at Dodgeville in '44 and '45; member of county board three years; was a member of the assemby in 1869, '70 and '72; sheriff of Dane county in 1873 and '74, and was elected state senator for 18:2 and '83, receiving 1,439 votes against 1, 244 votes for W. A. De Lamatyr, republican, and 47 for W. M. Matts, greenbacker.

Twenty-seventh District.

Adams and Columbia counties. Population, 34,806.

GILBERT E. McKEEBY (Rep.), of Lodi, was born in the town of Bath, Summit county, Ohio, on the 4th of November, 1844; was a student at the Wisconsin State University for three years, and graduated at Bellevue Hospital Medical College, of New York city, in 1868; is a physician by profession; he came to Wisconsin in 1846 and settled at Oregon, where he resided until 1868; began the practice of medicine in Iowa county and afterwards removed to Lodi, in the autumn of the same year; enlisted as a private soldier in 1864, in Co. M, 1st Wisconsin Heavy Artillery, and served to the close of the war; was elected state senator for 1831 and '82, by a vote of 4,583 against 2,616 votes for Josiah Arnold, democrat.

Twenty-eighth District.

Iowa and Richland counties. Population 41,802.

WILLIAM C. MEFFERT (Rep.), of Arena, was born at Ems, Germany, December 23, 1842; received a common school education; is a saddler and harness maker by occupation; came to Wisconsin in 1845 and settled at Mineral Point, afterwards removing to Arena; enlisted as a private in company H, 3d regiment Wis. Vol. Inf., May 4, 1861; was made color bearer; par

ticipated in all the battles of the regiment up to the date of his discharge, August 25, 1965, among which were those of Boliver Heights, Darnestown and the capture of the Maryland legislature in 1861; Charlestown, Winchester, Strasburgh, Front Royal, Haymarket and Bank's famous retreat down the Shanandoah Valley, Slaughter Mountain, and Pope's campaign from August 23 to Septembe: 1, ending with the 2d Buli Run battle and Antietam in 1:62; Seneca, Beverly Ford, Chancellorsville, Rapidan, Gettysburg and the Draft Riots in New York City in 1863; Resaca, Altoona, Dallas, Last Mountain, Marietta, Peach Tree Creek, Siege of Atlanta, Savannah, Edisto River, Chesterfield, Fayettville, Averysboro, Bentonville, Raleigh and all the minor engagements during Sherman's march to the sea, up to and including the surrender of Joe Johnson in 1865; has never held any public office; was elected state senator for 1882 and '83, receiving 2,943 votes against 2,714 for J. L. R. McCollum, democrat.

Twenty-ninth District.

Buffalo, Pepin and Trempealeau counties. Population, 38,943. AUGUSTUS FINKELNBURG (Rep.), of Fountain City, Buffalo county, was born in Marienlinden, Renish Province, Prussia, May 8, 1830; received a collegiate education; is a lawyer by profession; immigrated to the United States in 1848, residing first in Missouri, afterwards in California, coming to Wisconsin in 1855 and settling in Fountain City; has held various local positions, county clerk, clerk of court, district attorney and county judge; was a member of the assembly in 1874; was elected state senator for 1881 and '82, receiving 5,247 votes against 1,154 votes for Edward Lees, democrat and greenbacker.

Thirtieth District.

Dunn, Eau Claire and Pierce counties. Population, 54, 584.

ROCKWELL J. FLINT (Rep.), of Menomonie, Dunn county, was born in Williamstown, Orange county, Vt., March 23, 1842; is one of the editors and proprietors of the Dunn County News; came to Wisconsin in 1855, and settled in Marquette county; removed to Portage in 1860; entered the office of the State Register, at Portage, in 1861, to learn the printer's trade; removed to Prescott in 1868, and became one of the publishers of the Prescott Journal; was appointed Asst. U. S. Assessor of I. R in 1869, but resigned shortly afterward; removed to Menomonie in 1871, where he now resides; enlisted as a private, August, 1862, in Co. C. 23d Wis. Vols., participated in the first campaign against Vicksburg and took part in the capture of Arkansas Post; was detailed in the U. S. signal corps in 1863; passed a satisfactory examination and was promoted to sergeant; was appointed quartermaster sergeant of the signal corps, Department of the Gulf, in 1864, and participated in the capture of Forts Gaines and Morgan, on Mobile bay, and other minor engagements; was a member of assembly in 1875 and a state senator in 1876 and '77; was chairman of the town board of Menomonie in 1878, 79 and '80, and was chairman of the Dunn county board during the same years; was elected senator for 1882 and '83, receiving 3,408 votes against 3,260 for W. F. Bailey, democrat.

Thirty-first District.

La Crosse county. Population, 27,072.

MERRICK PRENTICE WING (Rep.), of La Crosse, was born in Hinsdale, Berkshire county, Massachusetts, September 10, 1833; received an academic and common school education and attended the Ann Arbor Law School two years; is a lawyer by profession, being admitted to practice in 1862; came to Wisconsin in 1855, and settled at Portage, removed thence to La Crosse in 1883; was elected city attorney in 1872; was a member of the state senate in 1877 and '78; was elected state senator for 1881 and '82, receiving 2,530 votes against 2,254 votes for C. L. Hood, Democrat.

Thirty-Second District.

Jackson and Monroe countics. Population 34,891.

CHARLES K. ERWIN (Rep.), of Tomah, Monroe county, was born in Washington, Lycoming county, Pennsylvania, December 15, 1837; received a common school education; is a merchant by occupation; came west in 1859, settling in Jo Daviess county, Ill., until 1868, when he removed to Tomah, his present home; enlisted as a private in 1861 in Co. E, 45th Ills. Vol. Inf.. known as the "Washburne Lead Mine " regiment; was commissioned 2d lieutenant in November, 1862, 1st lieutenant in June, '63 and for gallant conduct at the storming of Fort Hill in the siege of Vicksburg, he was made captain in April, 1865; was with the regiment at Fort Henry, Fort Donaldson and most all of the engagements of the Army of the Tennessee; was assistant provost marshal of the 17th army corps on the staff of Gen. McPherson, from October, 1863, until he was relieved of the command, after which he held the same position on the staff of Gen. Frank P. Blair; in December, 1864, was detailed as Judge Advocate of general court martial at Springfield; was mustered out with his regiment at Louisville, July 12, 1865, having participated in seventeen battles. He was elected state senator for 1882 and '83, receiving 3,198 votes against 1,472 for Geo. R. Vincent, democrat, and 193 for E. N. Palmer, greenbacker.

Twenty-third District.

Ozaukee and Washington counties. Population 38,904.

GEORGE FREDERICK HUNT (Dem.), of West Bend, Washington county, was born in Nichols, Tioga county, New York. August 24, 1831; received an academic education; graduated at the college of Physicians and Surgeons, New York city, in 1856; is by profession a physician; came to Wisconsin in 1856; was postmaster during President Grant's administration; was pension surgeon in 1864 and 1865; has been president of the Rock River Medical Society; was elected president of West Bend village in 1379 and 18:0; was elected state senator for 1881 and 1882, receiving 4,480 votes against 3,136 votes for Andrew Schmidt, democrat.