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| The following are from
the Wisconsin Blue Book. The Blue Book is an almanac containing
information on the government, economics, demograpics, geography and
history of the state of Wisconsin. The book was first published in 1853.
It is currently published in the fall of every odd year, corresponding to
the start of each new biennium of the Wisconsin state government.
Here you will find biographies of individual's that have served in the
state government.
And a special thanks to Tina Vickery for
making these available to us!
Statewide County WI Archives
Biographies |
| Author: The State Printing Board, Compiled
and Published. MEMBERS OF THE SENATE
FOURTEENTH SENATORIAL DISTRICT
Outagamie and Shawano counties.
ANTONE KUCKUK (Rep.) conducted a jewelry and music store in
Shawano for over thirty-three years, but is now devoting his time to
banking, the manufacture of the Four Wheel Drive Trucks and the Iwen Box &
Veneer Co. He was born in Schleisingerville, Feb. 10, 1863, attended the
common schools and evening business college, and then held a number of
clerical positions in Hartford, Wausau and Shawano until he engaged in the
jewelry and music business for himself. He was instrumental in starting
the Wisconsin National Bank, Shawano, 1902; the State Bank of Gresham,
1909; Farmers State Bank, Beaver Dam, 1911; State Bank of Caroline, 1913;
and is director in each and vice-president of the two former ones. He is
also President Menomonie Motor Truck Mfg. Co., director of the Four Wheel
Drive Co., and the Iwen Box & Veneer Co., treasurer Retail Lumber and
Supply Co. He served as a member of the Shawano county board and Shawano
school board' for years, was nominated and elected to the assembly in 1906
without opposition and elected to the senate in 1916, and re-elected in
1920, receiving 9,880 votes to 8,811 for C. B. Ballard (Ind.).
Additional Comments: The Wisconsin Blue Book. The State Printing Board,
1923. 598 - 640.
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The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin
Compiled and Published under the direction of Wm. H. Froehlich, Secretary
of State 1901.
page 764
SHAWANO COUNTY. Population, 1900--27,475. (District unchanged by
apportionment of 1901.)
JONAS SWENHOLT (Rep.) of Shawano, was born in the town of
Oconomowoc, Waukesha county, Dec. 20, 1855, where his parents settled when
coming to this country from Norway in 1844. In 1863 the family moved to
Waupaca county, where the subject of this sketch grew up on a farm, where
he remained until 1880, when he started in mercantile business in
Wittenberg Shawano county, where he also conducted a sawmill and dealt in
lumber. He was postmaster at Wittenberg two terms, under Hayes and
Harrison. He also filled the offices of town clerk, town treasurer,
village treasurer and village supervisor. In 1894 he was elected register
of deeds for Shawano county, and was re-elected to that office in 1896.
Since 1898 lie has been in real estate business and was elected to the
assembly in 1900 by 3,243 votes, against 1,505 for H. R, McComb (Dem.).
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| Author: The State Printing Board, Compiled
and Published.
SHAWANO COUNTY
AUGUST BEVERSDORF (Rep.) was born in Germany, Sept. 22, 1864, came
to Milwaukee with his parents in 1867 where he was educated in the public
schools and in 1878 moved to the town of Richmond, Shawano county, when it
was a wilderness. At the age of 21 he purchased a farm in Belle Plaine
township which he has developed into one of I he linest farms in the
county. He served as town treasurer ten years, chairman twelve years, was
a member of the .county asylum building committee and trustee for six
years. He has been President of the Shawano County Agriculture Society for
.the last five years, and has been school clerk of his district for 26
years. He served in the session of 1920. and 1921 and was re-elected in
November, 1922, receiving 4,983 votes to 429 for William Dailey (Ind.
Dem.). Additional Comments: The Wisconsin Blue Book. The State Printing
Board, 1923. 598 - 640.
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Author: The State Printing Board
Compiled and Published.
MILWAUKEE COUNTY Seventeenth District. The towns of Lake
and Oak Creek and the cities of Cudahy and South Milwaukee.
JOHN HERMAN KOCH (Rep.) was born in Germany July
24, 1864, coming to the United States with his parents in 1870, first
settling near Mayville, Wisconsin, and three years later on a farm in the
town of Hartland, Shawano county, Wisconsin. After attending various
schools, he completed his education in 1889, when he graduated from the
Lutheran School Seminary in Milwaukee. Ordained as a minister, he took
charge of a church in the town of Paris, Kenosha county. In the year 1892
he was called by the Lutheran Synod of Wisconsin as a missionary and as
such organized congregations in Waukegan, Illinois, South Milwaukee and
Cudahy, Wisconsin. South Milwaukee soon became the only field of his
labor. In 1909 he accepted a call as superintendent of the Lutheran
Children's Home Finding Society of Wisconsin. Ill health made it necessary
for him to retire from active pastoral work and since 1916 has made his
home in the town of Lake, one block outside the Milwaukee limits. He never
sought a public office, but upon request became a candidate for the
assembly, being elected in 1922, receiving 1,770 votes to 1,529 for Elmer
A. Krahan (Soc.) and 388 for R. J. Hopkins (Ind.). --- Additional
Comments: The Wisconsin Blue Book. The State Printing Board, 1923. 598 -
640.
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