soldier, politician, b. Werden, Prussia. He migrated to the U.S. and to Wisconsin with his parents in 1847, settling in Kenosha County. During the Civil War, he served in Co. C, 1st Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry (1861-1864), was badly wounded, and after the loss of an arm was breveted captain (Sept. 1863), and discharged from the service in May, 1864, because of his disabilities. Returning to Wisconsin, Timme re-entered high school, also attended a commercial college in Cleveland, Ohio, and taught school for a time. A Republican, he held local political offices in Kenosha, and in 1881 was elected Wisconsin secretary of state, serving from Jan., 1882, to Jan., 1891. He was state senator from Kenosha County (1895-1898), and later moved to Washington, D.C., where he served in the Post Office Department until his retirement, and continued to make his home in Washington until his death. F. H. Lyman, City of Kenosha . . . (2 vols., Chicago, 1916); Wis. Blue Book (1887); Kenosha Telegraph- Courier, Apr. 5, 1923.Learn More
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[Source: Blue book]
