The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-05-22
 WISCONsIN,s NEW SENATOR.
His Portrait Drawn for NewspapeE
 Opposed to His Election.

Isaac Stephenson, who was to-day elected United States senator to fill John c. Spooner's unexpired term, has long had an itching for a seat in the United States senate. It has been the dream of his life. This ambition was responsible for the break with the old Sawyer machine which resulted so dis astrously for the machine and was re- sponsible for such great changes for Wisconsin, the reformd movement, the Half Breed -Stalwart split and the ele- vation of La Toilette to national prominence.
 Stephenson served as a member of congress from the Marinette district, the ninth, in 1885 and 1887 He had watched with longing ayes democrat, Col. Villas, succeed Spooner and anoth- CT democrat, Mitchell, succeed. Sawyer. When the republicans returned to power iii the state Spooner naturally succeeded Villas, and when Mitchell went out in 1899 Stephenson believed his time for the honor had arrived. He had the pledges, So he has ever claimed, of the men with whom he had trained in the machine, Sawyer, Pfis- ter and others. But they failed him, and after long contest J. V. Quarles won the prize on the ninty-thfrd bal- lot, after contest which was filled with bitternes for Stephenson and which he has caused every member of the old machine, even to the. under lings, to look back upon with bitter re- gret, since he joined the ranks of the Half Breed reformers. That contest was fiye-sided much like that which ends to-day Quarles, Stephenson, Cook, Babcock and Webb were the candidates In the order of their strength.
 In 1905 Uncle Ike again thought his hour had struck and moved upon Mad ison to gather in his coveted laurels, only to discover, when he reached the capital city, that they were intended as an adornment for the La Toilette brow, Bottling up his disappointment he returned to Marlnette and 1t was supposed he had foregone forever his cherished ambition, but the unexpect- ed resignation of John e. Spooner again called him to the front.
 Isaac Stephenson of Marinette is one of Wisconsin's sturdiest pioneers, al- though he lacks only one month of be- ing seventy eight. For sixty-two years his life has been spent in the state. Entering the northern part of the state before the day of It's earliest de- velopment, he has been associated in almost every large enterprise which has been promoted there, and as the greatest timber baron in Wisconsin, he has attained national reputation.
 Mir Stephenson was born in York county, N. B., June IS, 1929. His father was of Scotch-Irish descent, while his mother was native of London. His opportunities to obtain an education were naturally limited, as his early years were spent on farm. MT. Stephenson first saw Wisconsin in 1S45 when he landed in Milwaukee, af- ter the long trip from the East. In 1S46 he was found on farm five miles south of Janesville, where he cleared 1SO acres. That winter he went north into the lumber country, and from that time on he has been actively identified with the development of northern Wisconsin. His first em- ployment here was driving OK teams Then he was placed in charge of lumber camps and finally began taking ac- counts in his own name. In the sum- mer months he sailed the lakes, en- gazing principally in the lumber car rying trade between Eseanaba and Milwaukee and Chicago. He settled definitely in Marinette in 1853.
 Tn 1858 MT. Stephenson bought g quarter interest in the N. Ludingtor company, and began his career ir larger and more important fields. He was closely associated throughout this
 period with Jefferson Sinclair, witf
 whom he came west, and Daniel Wells IJr. Among the larger enterprises with which MT, Stephenson has beer actively associated and of which ht
 has ben at some time the ruling spiri
 are the Peshtigo company, Marinett,
 and Menorninee Paper company, Me
 nominee River and Boom Company, I