George H. Lown

George H. Lown was an American from Walworth, Wisconsin who spent a single one-year term as a Free Soil Party member of the Wisconsin State Assembly from Walworth County.[1] He would be succeeded in the Assembly by fellow Free Soiler George Sykes.

He had been elected as Chairman of the "Supervisors" (city council) when the first town meeting was held for what was originally called "Fontana" (later renamed "Walworth"), in a schoolhouse on Big Foot Prairie on April 4, 1843.[2]

References

  1. ↑ "Members of the Wisconsin Legislature 1848–1999 State of Wisconsin Legislative Bureau. Information Bulletin 99-1, September 1999. p. 77
  2. ↑ Church, Cyrus. "Sixty Years Ago: Organization of Township Government", originally published in 1898 in The Observer (Williiams Bay, Wisconsin); reprinted in: Van Epps, Frank M., ed. Bay Leaves Volume 6, No. 26. Lake Geneva, Wisconsin: Frank M. Van Epps, July 9, 1938; p. 4