The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1893-01-07
Our Public Servants.

The newly elected county officers
! entered upon their respective duties
+ last Monday. The Leader of Tuesday
gave the following pleasing pen pie
lures Of the gentlemen, which the
HINES takes pleasure in reproducing
: and in also wishing them Il pleasant
/ and prosperous official term. Of the
list but tive were reelected, viz: Mr..
Murphy, District Attorney, and Mr..
/ Erickson, Register of Deeds:
Long .Eohn's Picturesque Career.
I BY all odds the most picturesque and
! interesting character in the batch OF
county officials is Long John Murphy,
/ who was elected TO office as soon as he
was Il legal voter and nearly every year
since that time and WAS never de
featcd. lie is from &! to 90! feet III
height according TO circumstances,
and although but 20 years of age his
hair is almost snow white.
He was born in FL Paso, Pierce
county, W IscOnSln, where every man
is a statesman and every woman Il
poet. Until about II years of age he
worked on farm and trapped SkunkS
and wOOdchuckS, and broke up humble
bees nests in summer and attended
district school in winter. He studied
law, Shakespeare, the Bible and gillS
during the evenings. When he be
came u, after being principal of tie
Ellsworth graded school, he was elect
ell county superintendent. He WAS
reelected to that Office, bat before the
second term expired was elected in
y Lat
and was the Youngest member in that
body, III which Ire took a leading and
influential part
After adjournment Of the leglsla-
tire he took his other shirt and started
for the NermiIlion range After Il
long battle with mosquitoes, hard tack
ana salt pork, he discovered a mine
! which lie sold out for nice chunck of
money. He then took a year i'll the
law department Of the university Of
! Wisconsin. He graduated in 1883 and
came straight to Superior where he
has since resided. His first firm was
Murphy * Fridley; next Murphy 4
Bundy and now Swift, Murphy <
Bundy.
Ills conduct Of The office of district
attorney has been such as to several
times call forth compliments from
Judge MARSHALL the sternest Judge,
unless it be John r. Bennett Of James
vile, upol. any circuit in Wisconsin,
BY and ~ Long John will sit in Con
gress or other high places Of public
trust
Register Erickson.
IIalford Erickson, who was re-elact-
ed register Of deeds at the last cleo
ton, was born on Il farm in the western
part of Sweden in the year 1862. After
passing twenty years on the farm and
acquiring such an education as it was
possible for him to get there, he came
to America and Immediately sought
The booming northwest, then Mime
apolis and st. Paul.
Being willing to work at anything
for a living. he soon found employ
mcnt i'll the freight department of the
Omaha railroad. While in MinneapO-
lis lie put in year in the Minneapolis
academy and also took Il course in the
business university. lie afterwards
came to Superior and was cashier in
the freight departmental the Omaha,
which poSitiOn he filled until he was
first elected register OF deeds i'll the
fall of 1850
Mr.. Erickson owns considerable
property in the city and is married
and lives at Central Park He Will
have the same assistants and helpers
in the office as have surrounded him
for the last two years.
Mr. Erickson is a fair, thoughtful,
accommodating and honorable public
official. Not a word of complaint has
been uttered against him.