16 Facts About Charles Pettibone

Charles Alexander Pettibone was an American newspaper editor and Republican politician.

Charles Pettibone served four years in the Wisconsin State Senate, representing Dodge County, and was later sergeant-at-arms of that body.

Charles Pettibone's family moved to Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, in 1850.

Charles Pettibone attended public schools, and obtained what was described as a "partial collegiate education" in the Wayland Academy and Lawrence University.

Charles Pettibone served as private and second lieutenant, eventually reaching the rank of captain.

Charles Pettibone took part in most of the engagements in which the regiment participated, and was mustered out of service on March 7,1865.

Charles Pettibone returned to Wisconsin, where for a while he tried his hand at teaching and farming.

Charles Pettibone began publishing the weekly New London News at New London in 1874; when that failed, he started The Telephone, later the Juneau Telephone, at Mayville in 1877.

Charles Pettibone served on the standing committee on railroads, and as chairman of the joint committee on printing.

Charles Pettibone was not a candidate for re-election in 1890, and was succeeded by Democrat William Voss.

Charles Pettibone became sergeant-at-arms of the Senate as of the 1895 session.

Charles Pettibone retained his office until the Senate's 1903 session.

Charles Pettibone then moved to Waupun, where he assisted Wilford A Sanborn, proprietor of the Waupun Leader and husband of Pettibone's daughter Hannah.

Charles Pettibone was a Freemason, an Odd Fellow, and a member of the Grand Army of the Republic.

In March 1917, a letter from Charles Pettibone was published in The Weekly Republican.

Charles Pettibone died on November 30,1925, and is buried with Emily in Forest Mound Cemetery in Waupun.