- Third District. The towns of Avon, Beloit, Clinton, Newark,
Plymouth and Turtle, the village of Clinton, and the city of
Beloit. Population, 1900--17,210.
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- SIMON SMITH (Rep.) Beloit, Wis., was born in Axbridge, Eng.,
Nov. 13, 1839; came to this country with his parents when a boy;
received a common school education; settled in Beloit in 1856.
At the breaking out of the civil war he enlisted in Co. D, 15th
Ill. Inf.; after the war he returned to Beloit and engaged in
the painting business; is now retired. Has been a member of county
board twenty years; was for two years chairman of the board.
Was mayor of the city of Beloit from April, 1899, to April, 1904,
has always been a republican in politics. He was elected to the
assembly in 1906, receiving 1,268 votes against 667 for F. Lathers
(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. 1170; portrait from same.
- Courtesy of Lori
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