The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin Compiled and Published under the direction of J. D. Beck, Commissioner of Labor and Industrial Statistics 1907.

The Wisconsin Blue Book. VII. Biographical Sketches. The Wisconsin Legislature. Assembly, p. 1139

HERMAN L. KERN, Speaker; C. E. SHAFFER, Chief Clerk; W. S. IRVINE, Sergeant-at-Arms.

The assembly consists of 100 members. They are chosen biennially and receive $500 for their services during their term. The speaker is chosen by the members and receives an additional $500 for his services as speaker. The assembly of 1907 contains 76 republicans, 19 democrats, and 5 social democrats.

Waupaca County. (p. 1175) Second District. The towns of Bear Creek, Dupont, Harrison, Helvetia, Iola, Lebanon, Larrabee, Matteson, Mukwa, Union and Wyoming, the villages of Embarrass, Iola and Marion, the city of Clintonville, and the 1st, 2d, 4th and 5th wards of the city of New London. Population, 1900 - 15,278.

OTTO L. OLEN (Rep.) was born in Winneconne, Winnebago county, Wis.; was brought up on a farm and educated in Ball Prairie school, Winneconne high school, and Oshkosh Normal School; taught school winters, and worked on rivers driving logs, and on farm summers for several years to earn money to go to law school. Graduated from the Chicago Law School 1899, and opened a law office at Monawa [Manawa], Wis. same year. In Oct. 1901, moved to Clintonville, Wis. and engaged in the practice of law with his brother Walter A. Olen, under the firm name of Olen & Olen; has been vice-chairman of the county board of Waupaca county for the past two years, and president of the Clintonville Free Library Board since its organization. He was elected to the assembly in 1906, receiving 1,104 votes against 498 for J. Prenzlow (Dem.).