Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-01-16

uated from college and commenced the practice
of medicine, in which he has ever since been en-
gagged; has never been a candidate for office of
of the peace, until this fall. when he was elected
to the lower house as a democrat.
TUFTS, D. c., of ArgusviIle, Cass county. was
born in the county of Franklin, state of Maine,
on the 9th day of August. 1851; ancestry Ameri-
can; was educated in Wesleyan State normal,
Harrington, Franklin county, Maine; settled in
North Dakota thirteen years ago; is married and
and raised on a farm; has always been a republic
can. and was elected to the house of 81 as a
republican.
WALLES. OLE s., of Portland, Trail county,
was horn i'll Norway on the 29th day of Septem-
Der, lS49; ancestry. Norweg,an: was educated in
common schools and at the University of Wis
consin; settled in North Dakota in 1879; is
married and at present engaged in farming; came
to America at the age of one year and settled in
Dane county. Wisconsin, where he received a
common school education; attended Marshall acs
terms; taught in the common schools twelve
years; came to Mayvllle, North Dakota, in the
spring sEal e. OF 1873; was Appointed census enumer-
worked four years in a general store; was elected
a delegate to the first state convention held at
Fargo; has held the offices of justice, clerk of
civil and school township, ETC.; was elected to
the house of 81 as a republican.
WALTON, LUTHER L., of Darlington, re.
sides in Wells county; was born in Oakland,
State of Michigan, on the 9TH day Of March,
1919: uASN"oA , > 1AhtS "u1 VCutC LII ulSu
school and at Ann Arbor; settled in North
Dakota in 1882; is married and at present en-
gagged in farming;, was bora on a farm and
mas always followed the occupations; has always
been a republican, having cast his first ballot
for Abraham Lincoln; served in the war two
years and two months; marched with Sherman
during his Atlanta campaign and his memoir
able march to the sea; was a member of the
house in the first legislature and reelected to the
house of 81 as a republican,.
WARD, WILLIAM OSCAR, of Bismarck,
UrIniT nNnnfHr HuaO hmm, IN tIo o.,,,t - JSns,,
state OF Pennsylvania, on the Sd day of May,
1889; ancestry Scotch; was educated in common
schools OF Pennsylvania; settled in North Dakota
in 1872; is married and at present engaged in
stock raising; he commenced farming in Mime
sofa in 1865; removed to Dakota in 1872, and has
been engaged in dairying and stockraising ever
since; entered the war in 1861 and served two en-
llStments OF four years and three months in all.
and participated in some of the sharpest contests
of that conflict; was elected to the house as a
republican,.
WATSON. JAMES MOODY, of Eldred, Cass
county, was born in county OF Crawford, state of
Pennsylvania, on the 26th dav of October. 1850;
ancestry Americana; was educated in district
ried and is at present engaged in farming; was in
the mercantile business before coming to Dakota;
was elected to the house as a republican, to
which party he has always belonged.
WHITE, FRANK, of Valley City, Barnes coun-
ty, was born in county of Ogle, state of Illinois,
on the 18th day of December, 1855; ancestry
Engllsh-Scotch;, was educated at University OF
Illinois; settled in North Dakota in 1882; is single
and at present engaged in farming; was elected
to the house Of ~ as a republican.
WILLIAMS, MAURICE F., of Grand Forks,
Grand Forks county, was born in County of ALA
makee, state OF Iowa. on the 9TH day of June,
st. Johns college, Prairie du Chen, Wis
cOnsin; settled in North Dakota in
1882; is married, and at present general agent for
an Office of any kind; is a straight democrat, and
was elected to the house of 81 as a democrat.
YEGEN, JOHN, of Bismarck, BurIeigh county,
was born in Switzerland, on the 18th day of
common schools; settled in North Dakota in
1873; is married and at present engaged in the
sale of groceries and farm machinery; is a con-
fectioher by trade and has been in business for
the past twenty years; he came to America in
1866; he has held several local offices and was
elected to the house of ~ as an independent.