Henry C. Bottum

Henry C. Bottum (June 7, 1826 – May 23, 1913) was a farmer, American politician and member of the Wisconsin State Assembly.

Biography

Bottum was born on June 7, 1826, in Orwell, Vermont,^[1]^{[Note 1]} the son of Roswell Bottum and Elue Hulburd Bottum.^[1]^[3] He married Helen Burnham on July 21, 1852.^[4] Bottum later became a farmer in Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin.^[5] He died on May 23, 1913, in West Rosendale, Wisconsin.^[6]

Bottum served three terms^[5] as a member of the Assembly during the 1868, 1869 and 1879 sessions.^[7] He was a Republican.

^ ^a ^b "Vermont Vital Records, 1760-1954," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XFJ3-W66 : 6 December 2014), Henry Clay Bottum, 07 Jun 1826, Birth; State Capitol Building, Montpelier; FHL microfilm 27,484.
^ The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin (18th ed.). Madison, Wis.: David Atwood. 1879. p. 492.
^ ^a ^b The History of Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin. 1880. Chicago: Western Historical Co., p. 913.
^ Pierce, Frederick Clifton (1901). Field Genealogy. Vol. 1. W.B. Conkey Company. pp. 152–153.
^ ^a ^b Kingsbury, George Washington (1915). South Dakota: Its History and Its People. Vol. 5. S. J. Clarke Publishing Company. p. 1080.
^ "Two Estates Filed". Fond du Lac Commonwealth Reporter. June 5, 1913. p. 5. Retrieved December 15, 2016 – via Newspapers.com.
^ Lawrence S. Barish, ed. (2007). State of Wisconsin Blue Book 2007–2008. p. 125.

^ The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin from 1879 contradicts the Vermont vital records, giving his birth date as January 7.^[2] (This may have resulted from misreading the month abbreviation Jun. as Jan.) A county history published four years later simply states that he was born in January.^[3]