Senate  1915-18  (District 8)
                            
                            
                                Party when first elected:  Nonpartisan Election-Conservative Caucus
                            
                            
                                Counties Served: 
                   Blue Earth
                            
                            BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
                            
                                
                                    
                                        
                                        
                                            Date of Birth: 
                                            4/6/1849
                                        
                                        
                                            Birth Place: 
                                            Russellville, Illinois
                                        
                                        
                                            Birth County: 
                                            Lawrence
                                        
                                        
                                            Birth Country: 
                                            United States
                                        
                                        
                                            Date of Death: 
                                            ??/??/1932
                                        
                                     
                                    
                                        
                                        
                                            Gender: 
                                            Male
                                        
                                        
                                            Religion: 
                                             Methodist
                                        
                                        
                                            Reported Minority: None Reported
                                        
                                     
                                    
                                 
                                
                                
                                    Other Names: 
                                    J.W.
                                
                                
                                    
                                
                                
                                
                                    City of Residence (when first elected): 
                                    Mankato
                                
                                
                                    Occupation (when first elected): 
                                    Practicing Medicine
                                
                             
                            EDUCATION
                            
                                
                                    St. Peter Public Schools; At Least Elementary School; 
Mankato State Normal School; Attended College; 
Michigan University, Medical Department; Studied Medicine; 
Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York; Medical Degree; Medicine and Surgery, March 1880
Rush Medical College; Medical Degree; February 1877
                                
                             
                            OTHER GOVERNMENT SERVICE
                            
                                
                                
                                        
                                        
                                            Municipal Council/Aldermen: 
                                            Mankato, Minnesota (4th Ward, City Council Member); 
                         
                         1895 to 1???
                                            
                                        
                                    
                                    
                             
                         
                        
                        
                            FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS
                            
                                
	
                                    Spouse: 
                                    Jennie French (married on April 4, 1877)
                                    Children: 
                                    One child:  Roy N.
                                    
                                    
                                    Family Members Who Have Served in the Minnesota Legislature: 
                                    
                                    
                                
                             
                            GENERAL NOTES
                            
                                
                                    He moved to St. Peter, Minnesota in 1856, with his parents.
"He has always been a Republican and identified with that party."  (Progressive Men of Minnesota, 1897, p. 51)
He was a member of the Masons.
Religion provided by Progressive Men of Minnesota, 1897.