310                        HISTORY OF GREEN COUNTY. 
sided near Evansville until about eighteen -years elected to the 48th Congress
in 1882 as a demo- 
of age; after finishing his law course, he com- crat, receiving 13,035 votes
against 7,924 for 
menced practice at Portage in the winter of George C. Hazelton, republican
; 3,791 for E. 
1871, but returned to Madison in the spring of W. Keyes, republican; 3,152
for S. D. Hast- 
1872 ; was elected district attorney of Dane  ings, prohibitionist, and 444
for P. W. Matts, 
county in 1872, and re-elected in 1.874 ; was greenbacker.