Representative Steenerson, champion of the drainage measure, which is 

 elsewhere described in this issue of Forestry and Irrigation was born June 

 30, 1852, in Dane County, Wis. His parents removed to Minnesota the follow- 

 ing year, and he later grew up in Houston county, studying in the common 

 schools of his section. Completing his education there he entered upon the 

 study of law, and in 1878 was admitted to the Bar in the Supreme Court of 

 Illinois, after a course of study at the Union College of L,aw in Chicago. The 

 same year he was admitted to the Minnesota bar, and soon after removed to 

 Crookston, Minn., and began the practice of his profession there. In 1880 

 he was elected county attorney; and in 1882, State Senator. He attended the 

 Republican National Conventions of 1884 and 1888 as a delegate, and was 

 elected to the 58th Congress and re-elected to the 59th. 



