Bio: Bump, Elisha L. (1881)

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Surnames: Bump, Brown, Simons, Garley, Silverthorn, Brown

----Source: The History of Northern Wisconsin, Marathon County, Wis. (1881) page 557

Elisha L. Bump, attorney at law, Wausau, was born July 10, 1849, in Otsego Co., N.Y., and reared in Allegany Co., N.Y., living for a time in New York City. He came to Almond, Portage Co., Wis., in 1863, living there until the Summer of 1870, when he went to Waupaca and was admitted to the Bar in the December term of 1870, and commenced practice in Waupaca. He came to Wausau in the Fall of 1871, and was in partnership with Willis C. Silverthorn, until 1875, then with E. L. Brown, of Waupaca, until the Spring of 1879, when he returned to Wausau. Mr. Bump is senior partner in the law firm of Bump, Hetzel & Canon, of Wausau and Merrill. He was District Attorney of Marathon County in 1873, and has been City Attorney of Wausau. He was Chairman of the County Board of Waupaca County. He is a son of Barnet and Clarissa Simons Bump; his mother died in 1876 and his father in 1877. Mr. Bump was married in Waupaca, Wis., in March, 1873, to Lillie Garley. They have three children � Franklin E., Mary E., and Florence M. He is a member of the A.F. & A.M. Lodge and Chapter; he was educated at Allegany Institute, of Almond, N.Y., and in the schools of Wisconsin.

 

 


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