Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-01-13

farming; has been frequently h0nOred with pos
iti0ns OF trust and responsibility by the people of
his community, having been town clerk, assessor,
and county commissioner; was elected to the
house rs an independent.
TOWERS, GEORGE W., OF Glendale. Dickey
county, was born in the county OF Lincolnshire,
England, on the 18th of December, 1916; ancestry
English; was educated in the public school; set
tied in North Dakota in 1882; is married and at
present engaged in farming; came TO America
with parents in lSl9. settling in jackson county,
Michigan; was Il democrat until 1891; elected to
the house as an independent.
TUFTS, ID: e.. of Argusville, Cass county, was
born in Franklin county, Maine. on the 9TH Of Au-
gust. 1851; ancestry. Americans; was educated at
the state normal school. Pennington, Maine; set
tied in North Dakota in 1877; is married and at
republican, and was elected to the house in 1891
and Is reelected, as a republican.
UE1.AND, l.. A.. of Edgeley, county of La
Moure, was born in the county of Vernon. state
of WISCONSIN, on the Path OF August, 1856; an
college, Iowa; settled in North Dakota in 1887; is
married and at present engaged in farming; was
elected to the lower house of the first assembly
as a republican, and was elected to the present
house as an independent.
VEEDER. JOHN S, of Mandan, county of
Morton, was born in county of Columbia, state Of
Wisconsin, on the 4th day of February, l847; an
tied in North Dakota in 1881 at Bismarck; at
present engaged as railroad conductor; is mar
ried; commenced railrOading in 1868 and fol-
business spring of 1881 at Bismarck under the
firm name of Peterson Il Veeder; in the fall of
1882 in company. with John Satterlund plated
general store and remained at Washburn until
1887, when he moved to Mandan and went into
the employ of the Northern Pacific railroad;
elected to the house as a republican.
WALLEN, OLE S., of Portland, Trail county,
was born in Norway on the Goth day of Septem-
her. 124N. ancestry NOrWnpiaO. WAC pIurofn6 in
common schools and at the University of Wis
cOnsin; settled in North Dakota in 1879; is mar.
RED and at present engaged in farming; came to
Dane county,. Wisconsin, where he received a
common school education; attended Marshall ac-
'cademy and University of Wisconsin a couple of
terms; taught in the common schools twelve
years; came to Mayville, North Dakota, in the
spring OF 1879; was appointed census elumer-
ator for the west half OF Trail county in 1880;
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, and is reelected
to the house as a republican.
WISKEK, j. H., of Ashley, Mcintosh county.
was born in Warren, Pa, on the 18th day of
April, 1867: and came to North DAKOTA in the
received common school education; is a farmer;
while not having held political offices, has taken
a prominent part in political matters; is married
and was eletecd to the house as arepublican.
WNluI11s OGOIldEs vi COEluuC, COuuLy OI
Stutsman. was born in the county Of Monroe,
state of New York, on the 2lst Of September
1874; ancestry American; educated in common
schools; settled in North Dakota, in 1884; is
employed by the New York Central railroad; at
the age of II, moved to Michigan in 1868
and engaged in numbering and farming; was
elected to the house as a republican.
YEGEN, JOHN, of Bismarck. Burleigh county,
was born in switzerland. on the 18th day of jan
uary. 1874; ancestry, Swiss; was educated in com
mon schools; settled in North Dakota in 1878:
at present engaged in the sale of gro.
ceries and farm machinery; is a confectiOner
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 in 1891 as an independent, and reelected
to the present house as a republican.
WINEMAN, JACOB BELMONT, of Grand
Forks, Grand Forks county, was born in Chicago
Illinois, on the 9th day of August, 1859; ancestry,
German; was educated at Bryant and Stratton's
Business College; settled in North Dakota in
1882; is married and engaged in the practice of
law; was deputy clerk OF the district court from
1889 to beginning of the present year; was dele
gate at the republican territorial convention at
Pierre in 'S4 and at the first, second and third
state conventions; was elected to the house as a
republican.
WALSH, GEORGE H., of Grand Forks. Grand
Forks county, was born in the county of Terre-
bonnie, Province of Quebec, on the oath Of No
vember, 1845; ancestry, Irish and English; edu.
Gated in the common schools and Bryant 4
aStrattOn's Commercial College; settled in North
Dakota in 1875; is married and engaged in practice
Of law: served in Company l., Tenth Minnesota
Infantry i'll the war; was a member of the terri.
council two sessions. 70 and Isl and member OF
the last territorial legislature; was elected to the
house of 80 as a republican, and is elected to the
present house as a republican.