Another cool item gleaned from the old newspapers.
"100 Years Ago
Mayor Bender introduced Wisconsin
Senator Robert M. La Follette as he arrived in Sutton for a reception and
speech during the 1912 presidential campaign. La Follette told the crowd that
he felt he was not a stranger to the people of the vicinity as his brother Bill
was a former resident of Sutton. (To which I say, “Huh?” A quick check finds
Robert age 5 and his brother W. T., 12, in Primrose, Wisconsin in 1860. William
La Follet lived in Chamberlain, South Dakota in 1900 and was back in Wisconsin
in 1910.) Robert La Follette left Sutton heading for Harvard and Hastings in
that 1912 visit."
Need to do some more research on this one. It sounds like William La Follette would have been in Sutton in the 1880's or 90's, not the easiest time to find more information.
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