Elisha Pearl [SEP] position held
Elisha Pearl
Elisha Pearl (March 7, 1819 – November 20, 1896) was an American farmer from Lisbon, Wisconsin who served one term as a Free Soil Party member of the Wisconsin State Assembly from Waukesha County, Wisconsin.
Background.
Pearl was born March 7, 1819 in Ashford, Connecticut. He first came to what was then the Wisconsin Territory in 1839, returned to Connecticut, came back and settled near Merton in Waukesha County. He returned to Connecticut once more, where he married Sarah Trowbridge
Prairieville, where he operated a dry goods store for some years.
Legislature and other state service.
He was living in Brookfield Center when he was elected to the Assembly for a one-year term in 1854 as a Whig, succeeding Free Soiler Elisha Pearl. He was not a candidate for re-election, and was succeeded by fellow Whig Benjamin F. Goss.
In 1858 he was invited to Madison to take a position as bank clerk in the office of Samuel D. Hastings, then Wisconsin State Treasurer and