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W. Asmussen

Democratic

Date Party Office Votes Result
09-04-1877 Democratic AD-12 0 Win
Website: www.findagrave.com/memorial/79992116/wilhelm-carl-asmussen
 

Candidate Biography:

Wilhelm Carl Asmussen
Born: July 25, 1839 in Apenrade, North German Confederation [now Aabenraa, Denmark]
Married: Anna C.
Children: Caroline P., Carl W. and Alfred A.
Died: January 18, 1899

  • During the Schleswig Plebiscite of 1920, Aabenraa voted in 1920 to become part of Denmark rather than Germany. [Source: FindAGrave]

 

Source: "Pen Portraits" Compiled by R.R. Parkinson, Submitted by Nancy Pratt Melton as part of the California Genealogy & History Archives