- The second Congressional District of Wisconsin is represented
in the National Congress by
- Lucien B. CASWELL, of Fort Atkinson, who was born at Swanton,
Vermont, November 27, 1827, and was the son of Seal and Betsey
CASWELL, residents of that State. When Lucien was but three years
of age his father died. In 1837, he, with his mother and stepfather,
Mr. Augustus CHURCHILL, removed to Wisconsin and settled near
the place where he now resides, a location then far out in the
wilderness, ten miles from any white settlement. He obtained
an education at different academies and at Beloit College. After
leaving College he studied law under the late Matt CARPENTER
of Wisconsin, and in 1851 was admitted to the Bar. In 1852 he
commenced the practice of his profession and has continued it
to the present time. He served as District Attorney in 1855 and
1856. In 1863, 1872, and 1874, he was a member of the State Legislatureof
Wisconsin. From September, 1863, to May 5, 1865, he was Commissioner
of the Second District Board of Enrollment of that Slate. He
was a Delegate to the National Republican Convention1 held at
Chicago in 1868. He was elected to the Forty-fourth, Forty-fifth,
and Forty-sixth Congresses, and was re-elected to the Forty-seventh
Congress as a Republican, by a vote of 16,041 against 14,390
Democratic, and 435 Greenback votes. In the Forty-fourth Congress
he made speeches in favor of the Centennial Appropriation Bill,
also against the Electoral Count Bill. In the Forty-fifth Congress
he served on the Committee on Pacific Railways, and made a speech
in favor of the extension of the grant of lands to the Pacific
Railroad Company. During the same Congress, and since, he has
made speeches upon the questions relating to the coinage of Silver,
also upon the various Appropriation Bills, and many other important
subjects of national legislation.
- Since the year 1863 he has been engaged in National Banking,
and for the last fifteen years has
- been largely interested in manufacturing. He has always carried
on various kinds of business in connection with that of his regular
profession. In the Forty-sixth Congress he was a member of the
Committee on Patents, and of the Committee on the Mississippi
Levees, and was appointed a member of the special Committee on
the revision of the Pension Laws.
- The life of Mr. CASWELL affords an encouraging example to
young men who are leaving their
- comfortable homes in the East to make their way into the
far West, where new lands, new climates and new opportunities
offer them fame and fortune, if they will make the sacrifices
and endure the hardships that for the first few years must attend
the life of the pioneer.
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- [Taken from "Public Men of To-Day" by P. C.
Headley; (c)1882 S. S. Scranton & Co., Hartford; pp. 329-330]
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