4 11-4-44 AG Mr. Bernard J. Gehrmann, of Wisconsin__ Mr. Lawrence H. Smith, of Wisconsin. Mr. Charles A. Plumley, of Vermont. Mr. Raymond S. Springer, of Indiana- Mr. Lewis D. Thill, of Wisconsin__ Mrs. Frances P. Bolton, of Ohio__- Mr. John Taber, of New York... Mr. Earl C. Michener, of Michigan__. Mr. Robert F. Rich, of Pennsylvania_ Mr. Reid F. Murray, of Wisconsin.. Tribute by Mr. Joshua L. Johns, of Wisconsin.. Tribute by Mr. Harry Sauthoff, of Wisconsin.. Tribute by Mr. Lewis Thill, of Wisconsin.. Tribute by Mr. William H. Stevenson, of Wisconsin.. Tribute by Mr. Thad F. Wasielewski, of Wisconsin.. Tribute by Mr. Jennings Randolph, of West Virginia. Tribute by Mr. Francis Case, of South Dakota.. Biography STEPHEN BOLLES was born in Springboro, Crawford County, Pa., June 25, 1866; attended the public schools; was graduated from the State Normal School of Pennsylvania at Slippery Rock, Pa., in 1888 and from the law department of Milton College, Milton, Wis.; served as reporter, correspondent, managing editor, and publisher of many newspapers in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New York, 1893-1901; chairman of the congressional committee of the Eleventh Ohio District and secretary of the Republican city committee of Toledo in 1894; chairman of the congressional committee of the Twenty-sixth Pennsylvania District and secretary of the Pennsylvania Republican League of Clubs in 1896; superintendent of the press department of the Pan American Exposition at Buffalo, N. Y., in 1901; secretary of the McKinley National Memorial Association, Cleveland, Ohio, in 1901 and 1902; managing editor of the Buffalo (N. Y.) Enquirer in 1902 and 1903; superintendent of graphic arts of the St. Louis Exposition, 1903–1905, during which time he was also director and editor of the exposition catalog for which France decorated him officer d'academie; director of publicity of the Jamestown Exposition in 1907; engaged as a special writer and also in private business, including brokerage business in Atlanta, Ga., 1907-19; moved to Janesville, Wis., in 1920 and again engaged as a newspaper editor until elected to Congress; delegate to the Republican National Convention at Kansas City in 1928; president of the Wisconsin State Chamber of Commerce in 1931 and president of the Wisconsin Associated Press Association in 1933 and 1934; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-sixth and Seventy-seventh Congresses and served from January 3, 1939, until his death in Washington, D. C., July 8, 1941; interment in Oak Hill Cemetery, Janesville, Wis. |