The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin Compiled and Published under the direction of J. D. Beck, Commissioner of Labor and Industrial Statistics 1907. The Wisconsin Blue Book. VII. Biographical Sketches. Members of the Sixtieth Congress. Representatives, p. 1119 Tenth Congressional District. Ashland, Florence, Forest, Iron, Langlade, Marathon, Oneida, Price, Shawano, Taylor, Vilas and Wood Counties. Population in 1900 - 190,975. ELMER A. MORSE (Rep.), of Antigo, Wisconsin, was born in Racine county in 1870; was educated in the common schools of Racine county; graduated from Ripon College in 1893, then served four years as superintendent of Schools of Racine county; entered the law school at Wisconsin University and was admitted to the bar in 1900. He commenced practicing law in the city of Antigo in the year 1900 and has been actively engaged in the practice since that time. He served two terms as city attorney for the city of Antigo resigning during third term. He has always resided in Wisconsin. He was elected member of the 60th congress in 1906, receiving 20,225 votes against 10,669 for D. Conway (Dem.) and 913 for J. Cox (Soc. Dem.).
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