. Portrait and biographical album of Green Lake, Marquette and Waushara counties, Wisconsin .. . ->€$^$-e-. OLES BASHFORD acquiredpopulaiit} enough to enablehim to reach the highestoffice in the gift of the peo-ple of the State in a shorterperiod—less thanfive years^ from the time he settled in^^l^^.>nsm—than has ever sufficed tom ikc any other man Governor of Wis-consin. But few men ever possessedan ecpial faculty for making and re-Xi^W j\ t lining friends. Mr. Bashford waslioiii at Cold .Spring, Putnam Co.,N ^ Jan. 24. 18] 0. He was edu-cated in the AVesleyan Seminary, nowGenesee Colle
. Portrait and biographical album of Green Lake, Marquette and Waushara counties, Wisconsin .. . ->€$^$-e-. OLES BASHFORD acquiredpopulaiit} enough to enablehim to reach the highestoffice in the gift of the peo-ple of the State in a shorterperiod—less thanfive years^ from the time he settled in^^l^^.>nsm—than has ever sufficed tom ikc any other man Governor of Wis-consin. But few men ever possessedan ecpial faculty for making and re-Xi^W j\ t lining friends. Mr. Bashford waslioiii at Cold .Spring, Putnam Co.,N ^ Jan. 24. 18] 0. He was edu-cated in the AVesleyan Seminary, nowGenesee College, at Lima, N. Y., where he was ahrilliant He studied law with John at Lyons, N. Y., and in 1841 was admittedA-y tiie bar. During the following year he removedO, and ill 1847 was elected District Attorney ofWayne County. Though re-elected with increasedpopularity, he resigned in , and removed toiie growing city of Oshkosh, where he atcnee became a prominent figure at the bar and inpolitics. In 1851 he wns in tlie Whig State convention,and assisted in the nomination of
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