Samuel Dresser

Samuel B. Dresser (November 23, 1831 - November 20, 1901 was an American businessman.

Life

Born in Bangor, Maine, he moved to Taylors Falls, Minnesota Territory in 1851 and was in the lumber and merchant business. Dresser moved to the Town of Osceola, in Polk County, Wisconsin in 1862. Dresser served in the Wisconsin State Assembly in 1870 and was sheriff of Polk County, Wisconsin in 1877 and 1878. He also served in town government. He died in the town of Osceola.[1][2]

Dresser, Wisconsin

Dresser donated land for a railroad and the area became a community: called Dresser Junction and later Dresser, Wisconsin.[3]

Notes
  1. 'Proceedings of the State Historical Society at its Annual Meeting,' volume 50, Wisconsin Historical Society: 1903, Wisconsin Necrology-1903, pg. 143
  2. 'Wisconsin Blue Book 1870,' Biographical Sketch of Samuel Dresser, pg. 357
  3. 'Wisconsin Encyclopedia,' Federal Writers' Project of the Work Progress Administration, Jennifer L. Hartman, North American Book Dist., LCC: 2008. pg. 306


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