Sam Fifield, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Sam Fifield

Steamboat clerk, politician; Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin

Date of Birth: 24-Jun-1839

Place of Birth: Corinna, Maine, United States

Date of Death: 17-Feb-1915

Profession: businessperson, politician

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Cancer


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About Sam Fifield

  • Samuel S.
  • Fifield (June 24, 1839 – February 17, 1915) was a Wisconsin politician and influential businessperson.
  • The Town of Fifield in Price County, Wisconsin is named after him. He was born in Corinna, Maine, in 1839 and received an education as a printer.
  • He moved to Wisconsin in 1854, where he worked as a clerk on a steamboat on the St.
  • Croix River.
  • He founded the Polk County Press in 1861.After the American Civil War, he entered politics and served as a Sergeant-at-Arms for the Wisconsin State Assembly in 1871 and 1872.
  • He later served as a Republican member of the Assembly from 1874 through 1876, serving as speaker the last year.
  • He was elected to the Wisconsin State Senate in 1876, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Henry D.
  • Barron.
  • He served in the state senate until 1881, at which time he was elected as Wisconsin's 14th Lieutenant Governor.He lived in Ashland from 1872, and helped found the Ashland Press newspaper.
  • He was the chairman of the first board of supervisors in June 1872.After retiring from politics in 1887, he served as postmaster in Ashland, and opened a summer resort on Sand Island in Lake Superior.
  • Named Camp Stella, after Fifield's wife, the camp was one of the first successful resorts in northern Wisconsin.
  • The site is now within the boundaries of the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore; many of the buildings are still standing, and one, the Sevona Memorial Cottage, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.Fifield died in 1915 at his home in Ashland.
  • In Ashland, there is a street of historic homes named Fifield Row in his honor.

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