Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1866-02-08
Legislative Statistics.
The ANIMAL statistical list Of mem

The annual statistical list of members
and officers of the legislature has been pre-
pared and printed, and the following items
are compiled therefrom
In the senate, of thirty three members,
there are ten farmers, eight lawyers, three
merchants, two each, manufacturers, me-
chanics and lumber merchants; one each
superintendent of telegraph, miller, land
agent, clerk, produce merchant and specu-
lator. The lieutenant governor and sena-
| tors Stoddard and Judd are the oldest,
each sixty y-eight, and fifteen are over forty
five years of age. The youngest is senator
J. A. Bentley, who is thirty. Senator
Rountree has had the largest legislative
experence-twe years, and there are
seven senators who have never been mem
bers of the legislature before. As to ma
tivity ten are New Workers, seven Yer
monters, four each from Massachusetts,
Pennsylvania and Connecticut, one each
from Scotland, Canada West, Kentucky,
Virginia, and Washington city.
Of the officers and employees of the sem
ate, nine each are farmers and students;
two each mechanics, lawyers, merchants
and clerks; one each produce dealers,
postmaster. editor and printer. AS to ma
tivi.y, twelve were born in New York, four
in Wisconsin, two each in Massachusetts,
Pennsylvania and England one each in
Ohio, Virginia, Rhode Island, Vermont,
Ireland and Norway. The oldest is John
Gibbons, fireman, who is fifty-tive, and the
Youngest Thomas Lannon, who is twelve.
In the assembly of one hundred mem
bers, there are forty five farmers, fifteen
lawyers, eleven merchants, five lumber
men, four physicians, two each editors,
manufacturers and brickmakers, one each
printer, student, millwrlght produce dealer
mechanic, lumber dealer, insurance agent,
grocer, surveyor, miller, smelter. AS to
nativity, thirty five hail from New York,
eleven from Vermont, six from ireland,
five each from Massachusetts, New Hamp-
shire and England, four each from Penn
sylvania, Ohio and Germany, three each
from Connecticut and Prussia, one each
from New Jersey, Rhode Island Georgia,
Canada West, Michigan, Wales, Belgium,
Newfoundland. Maine, Maryland, Illinois,
France, Missouri, Virginia and New Bruins
wick-none from this state. The oldest
member is NlcnolaS DlttmaT, OF MaKdtOW0c,
and the youngest L. H. Curtis, of MiAwau-
kee. There are thirty-nine members who
are over forty-fve years of age, and only
four who are under thirty. The oldest
residents of the state are T. B. Marsden,
Of Adams county, and d. j. Skely of La
fayctte, who have been here thirty-nine
years, and the latest conner is n. G. Car
penter, Of Vernon connty, who has been
here only four years. There are only ten
members who have been here less than ten
years
OF the forty officers and employees Of
the mbly-iEcluding fourteen messen
gers-fourteen put themselves down as
soldiers, thirteen as students, four as far
mers, two as clerks, one each as editor, law
yer, teacher, mechanic, clergyman, laborer
and merchant AS to birthplace, sixteen
are from New York, eleven from Wiscon-
sin, two each from Ohio, Pennsylvania,
ireland and Massachusetts one each from
Maine, France. New Hampshire, Vermont
and Sweden The oldest is II. Fl. Hayward,
fireman, who is sixty three, and the young
est is r. F. Norton, who is eightyears old.
The oldest resident of the state is A. Will
cox, gallery attendant, who has lived in
Wisconsin TWENTY-FIVE wears.