Webster Everett Brown (July 16, 1851 – December 14, 1929) was a

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from

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. Born near

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, in Madison County, Brown moved with his parents to Wisconsin in 1857. Resided for a time in Newport, Columbia County, and then in Hull and Stockton, Portage County. He attended the common schools. He completed a preparatory course at

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, and later, in 1870, a business course at the Spencerian Business College, in

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. He graduated from the

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in 1874. He engaged in the logging and lumber business in

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, in 1875. He moved to

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, in 1882 and continued in the logging and lumber business. He also engaged in manufacture of paper. He served as mayor of Rhinelander in 1894 and 1895. Brown was elected as a

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to the Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth, and Fifty-ninth Congresses (March 4, 1901 – March 3, 1907). He was elected as the representative of

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for the Fifty-seventh Congress, but redistricted and was elected to represent Wisconsin's 10th district for the next two congresses. He served as chairman of the Committee on Mines and Mining (Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth Congresses). He was not a candidate for renomination in 1906. He resumed his former business and manufacturing pursuits in

. He died in

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, while on a visit for medical treatment, December 14, 1929. He was interred in Forest Home Cemetery, located in

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