Jonathan Daugherty

Jonathan Daugherty was an American storekeeper from Rosendale, Wisconsin who spent two one-year terms representing Fond du Lac County as a member of the first two Wisconsin State Assemblies, the first as a Whig, the second as a member of the newly organized Free Soil Party.[1]

Background

In 1846, Daugherty opened a store in Rosendale for "Fay & Collins", the first retail business in the two-year-old settlement.[2] In 1847, "Daugherty & Woodruff" opened the first hotel in Rosendale, in the portion of the Town of Rosendale which is now Springvale.

In 1848, upon Wisconsin becoming a state, he was elected a member of the first Fond du Lac County board of supervisors.[3]

Legislative service

The first Wisconsin State Assembly convened pursuant to the new state Constitution, which had been adopted by a large majority vote of the people, from June 5 - August 31, 1848. Daugherty, at that time a Whig, was elected from the 2nd Assembly district of Fond du Lac County (the Towns of Alto, Metoman, Ceresco [now the Town of Ripon], Rosendale, Waupun, Oakfield and Seven-Mile-Creek [now Lamartine]). He was re-elected in 1848 for the second Assembly, which would meet from January 10 - April 2, 1849; but had by this time switched his allegiance to the newly organized Free Soil Party. He was succeeded in 1850 by Whig Bertine Pinckney.

In 1849 he was elected a Vice-President of the newly organized Wisconsin Agricultural Society for Fond du Lac County.[4]

References

  1. ↑ "Members of the Wisconsin Legislature 1848–1999 State of Wisconsin Legislative Bureau. Information Bulletin 99-1, September 1999. p. 42
  2. ↑ "History of the Town" in Comprehensive Land Use Development Plan: Town of Rosendale, Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin p. 2
  3. ↑ Glaze, A. T. Incidents and Anecdotes of Early Days and History of Business in the City and County of Fond Du Lac from Early Times to the Present: Personal Reminiscences, Remarkable Events, Election Results, Military History, Etc. Fond dul Lac: P.B. Haber Printing Company, 1905; p. 262
  4. ↑ Miller, Mark, ed. The Wisconsin Farmer, and Northwestern Cultivator Racine: Vol. 1, No. 4 (April 1, 1849); p. 95


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