. Portrait and biographical album of Green Lake, Marquette and Waushara counties, Wisconsin .. . ?^-?§§l-€- ©Mpi !E is a mau dislinguishedas much for being alwaysthe same even-tempered,genial, kindly and cour-teous gentleman, as for5 his real ability and ster-ling worth. To him also belongsthe unusual honor of being the onlycitizen of foreign birth who wasever elected to be chief executiveof Wisconsin; not only so, but hereceived a greater majority thanwas ever cast for an}^ other candi-date for that office. He was bornon June 18, 1824, near Inverness,in the North of >Scotland, where his fa
. Portrait and biographical album of Green Lake, Marquette and Waushara counties, Wisconsin .. . ?^-?§§l-€- ©Mpi !E is a mau dislinguishedas much for being alwaysthe same even-tempered,genial, kindly and cour-teous gentleman, as for5 his real ability and ster-ling worth. To him also belongsthe unusual honor of being the onlycitizen of foreign birth who wasever elected to be chief executiveof Wisconsin; not only so, but hereceived a greater majority thanwas ever cast for an}^ other candi-date for that office. He was bornon June 18, 1824, near Inverness,in the North of >Scotland, where his father was awell-educated and prosperous gentleman. Hismothers family name is Grant. In 1835 the familycame to America, and settled at Commerce, OaklandCo.—County of Lakes—Mich. His brothershaving chosen professions, William, after somefurther education in this country, early decided toadopt a mercantile life, and after an experienceof a few years in Michigan in this direction, wentto New York City and entered the great—at leastgreat for those days—wholesale dry-goods houseof Ir
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