History, Winnebago County, Wisconsin: Its cities, towns, resources, people

              BIOGRAPHY. 1023
elected mayor of the city six terms, 1886-89, and also 1893-96; he was school commissioner 1895; received the unanimous nomination ten different years for mayor, two of Avhich he declined; court commis¬ sioner for the Sixth judicial circuit court 1880 to 1888; giA-eii Re¬ publican nomination for state senator 1890; director of public library board, 1895, 1905, resigned in 1905; vice-president library board 1899 to 1904, and a member of committee to select books; park commis¬ sioner 1895 to 1905; president park board 1900-05, until he resigned from board; president Republican Club 1900; president Museum His¬ tory and Art Association 1895-1908; citizen member board of equal¬ ization of assessments 1895; president Fox River Yalley Library As¬ sociation 1898 to 1903; president AVinnebago County Traveling Board of Libraries 1901-03; president AVisconsin Library Association 1901- 03; vice-director archeological section of AVisconsin Natural History Society, Milwaukee, 1902; charter member V^isconsin Archeological Society 1903, and Adce-president; member State Historical Society 1900-08, Aladison. AVrote the bill for county system of public trav¬ eling libraries for the rural districts, Avliich became a law in 1901 and is being rapidly adopted by the different counties in the state, with 165 libraries already in circulation, and thirteen counties have adopted the system. He prepared the bill and urged its passage before the committee by which the state assumes the publication of the pro¬ ceedings of the Archeological Society in 1905.
Alade the memorial oration at the cemetery, on the invitation of the Grand Army posts of Menasha and Neenah, for ten years, 1880 to 1890, and again in 1905. Made the Fourth of July address each year from 1878 until 1899, twenty-one years. Lectured on "The Geological Formation of Green Bay" before the Avomen's clubs of that city in 1902; lectured on "Prehistoric AYisconsin" before Avomen's clubs, OconomoAvoc, AYisconsin, 1903; the Candlelight Club, the Cen¬ tury AVomen's Club and the Study Class of Oshkosh, and before Ripon College students at their chapel; on "Emblematic Alounds" at Carroll College before the field meet of the Archeological Society; lectured on "Great Inventors of AVisconsin" before Y. AI. C. A. of Kaukauna; "Great Men and AYomeii of AYisconsin," before the Y. AI. C. A, of Manitowoc and Avomen's clubs of Antigo, 1908; "Some Bright AA'^omen of AVisconsin," before Avomen's club of Kaukauna; and on the "Buried Forests and Gas AA'ells of the Fox River A/'alley," before Natural His¬ tory Society, at public library, Alilwaukee, 1902, AAdiich Avas published in their proceedings. Also delivered addresses before the same society on "Aboriginal Pottery," "Copper Age in America," "Aboriginal Alonuments in AA^innebago County,"   "Kames   and   Stone   Circles,"