politician, businessman, b. Abermynach, North Wales. He migrated to the U.S. with his parents, settling in Randolph (1846), and later in Portage. A Republican, he served for several years as treasurer of Columbia County, and was Wisconsin secretary of state (1870-1874). In Portage he engaged in the mercantile business, was a founder of the City Bank (1874) and its president until 1909. He was one of the founders of the Portage Hosiery Co. (1903) and had interests in various Wisconsin businesses. He was a trustee of Ripon College. F. L. Holmes, et al., eds., Wis. (5 vols., Chicago, 1946); U.S. Biog. Dict.... Wis. (Chicago, 1877); Portage Wis. State Register, Dec. 1, 1922, Feb. 23, 1923.

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