1891-92

John P. Hume

John P. Hume of Marshfield, Wood County, was born in Chilton, Calumet County, October 21, 1861, where he resided until September 1889, when he re-moved to Marshfield, he received a common school education, and is a journalist by profession; was clerk in house of representatives post office in 1884; afterwards secretary to the late Hon. Joseph Rankin, M. C.; was the Washington correspondent of Milwaukee Journal, Madison Democrat and La Crosse Chronicle; was also private secretary to Hon. William F. Vilas, while secretary of the interior; was elected chief clerk of the senate as a democrat, receiving 18 votes against 15 votes for Charles E Bross, republican.