The Wisconsin Magazine of History, Volume 1, 1917-1918Various
History
The Wisconsin Magazine of History, Volume 1, 1917-1918
Various
Wisconsin -- History -- Periodicals
[46] Noah H. Virgin, George W. Hazelton, Charles Quentin,
Densmore W. Maxon, Alden I. Bennett, Charles R. Gill, Buell
E. Hutchinson, and Dennison Worthington. Of these men Virgin
came to Wisconsin in 1835. He served at different times in
the territorial legislature and in the state senate and
assembly. Maxon came to Wisconsin in 1843, made his home in
Washington County (from 1846), and served numerous terms in
the senate and the assembly of the state; in 1865 he was the
democratic candidate for lieutenant-governor. He died in
California in 1887. Gill came to Wisconsin in 1856 and
opened a law office in Watertown. In 1860 and 1861 he was
the youngest member of the state senate. He enlisted as a
private in the army and rose to the colonelcy of the
Twenty-ninth Wisconsin Infantry. From 1866 to 1870 he was
attorney-general of the state. Hutchinson came to Wisconsin
in 1848 and settled at Prairie du Chien. He was admitted to
the bar and in 1856 was elected to membership in the state
assembly. In later years he lived successively in South
Dakota and in Chicago. Worthington settled in Waukesha
County in 1847. He served in the assembly and from 1855 to
1861 in the senate. The remainder of his active career was
devoted to the life insurance business at Madison.
[47] Charles B. Cox, Lemuel W. Joiner, and Charles Quentin.
Joiner came to Wisconsin in 1845. He served several terms in
the state assembly and senate. He died at Wyoming,
Wisconsin, October 22, 1886.
[48] Wyman Spooner of Walworth County, Jared Warner of
Grant, David Atwood of Dane, and William H. Ramsey of
Ozaukee. Spooner, a native of Massachusetts, came to
Wisconsin in 1842, settling first at Racine and then at
Elkhorn. He served for many years as probate and as circuit
judge, and a number of terms in the senate and the assembly.
He was at one time speaker of the assembly and at another
time president of the senate, and beginning in 1863 was
three times elected lieutenant-governor of the state. He
died November 18, 1877, in his eighty-third year.
[49] Charles Hathaway Larrabee. He came to Wisconsin in 1846
and the following year served in the second constitutional
convention of the state. He served as circuit judge for a
number of years and from 1858-60 was in the national House
of Representatives. He entered the army shortly after Fort
Sumter was fired on, and before ill health compelled him to
retire rose to the rank of colonel. Upon leaving the army he
removed to the Pacific Coast, where he met death in a
railway accident in January, 1883.
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