- Second District. [The towns of] Bradford, Harmony, Johnston
[Johnstown], La Prairie and the city of Janesville. Population
1900--17,091.
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- PLINY NORCROSS (Rep.) of Janesville, was born in Templeton,
Worchester county, Massachusettes, November 16, 1838; received
a common school and academic education; is by profession a lawyer;
came to Wisconsin in 1852 and settled in La Grange, Walworth
county, whence he removed in 1865 to Janesville, where he now
resides; enlisted April 16, 1861, in the 1st Wisconsin Vol. Inv.--a
three months' regiment,--and afterwards was captain of Co. K,
13th Wis. Vol. Inf., participating in all the engagements of
the regiment; has been district attorney of Rock county four
years, city attorney two years and mayor of Janesville two years.
Mr. Norcross has not practiced law since 1883, but has been engaged
in various kinds of manufacturing business. In June, 1904, he
was elected department commander of the state of Wisconsin G.A.R.
He is at present a member of the board of regents of the University
of Wisconsin. He was elected to the assembly in 1865 and again
in 1884; was re-elected to the assembly in 1904 and 1906, receiving
1,069 votes against 57 for John R. Horn (Soc. Dem.).
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- Taken from "The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin:
Complied and Published Under the Direction of J. D. Beck, Secretary
of State" (c)1907 Democrat Printing Company, State Printer,
Madison [WI], p. 1169.
- Courtesy of Lori
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