Biographies for Oneida County, Wisconsin

Oneida County, Wisconsin
Biographies

Webster E. Brown
Brown, Webster Everett, a Representative from Wisconsin; born in Madison county, N. Y., July 16, 1851; went with his parents to Wisconsin in 1857, lived for a time in Columbia county, then in Portage county; attended the common schools and completed a preparatory course at Lawrence University, Appleton, Wis., and a business course at the Spencerian business college, Milwaukee, in 1870, and was graduated from the University of Wisconsin, at Madison, in 1874; went into the lumber business at Stevens Point, Wis.; in 1882 the business was transferred to Rhinelander; mayor of Rhinelander two terms; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth, and Fifty-ninth Congresses (March 4, 1901-March 3, 1907); resumed lumber business in Rhinelander, Wis.
[Source: "A Biographical congressional directory From the 1st ( 1774) to the 62nd (1911) Congress"; By United States Congress; Publ. 1918; Transcribed for Genealogy Trails by Andrea Stawski Pack]