Background
Steffen was born in Orenhofen, Rhenish Palatinate, Prussia on November 5, 1836.
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Francis Steffen
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He received a common school education, and became a farmer by occupation. Steffen entered the 32nd Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment in August, 1862. Was with Ulysses South Grant in the Vicksburg Campaign in 1862-1863.
Marched with William Tecumseh Sherman on the Meridian, Mississippi campaign in 1864: took part at the Siege of Atlanta and the Battle of Jonesborough.
Marched with Sherman to the sea and into South and North Carolina. Took part in all the engagements with the command.
Marched through Washington, took part in the Grand Review of the Armies in May, 1865, and in June 1865 was mustered out. Steffen held various local offices, having been five times elected chairman of his town without opposition.
In 1858 he was elected county coroner as a Democrat.
He was elected clerk of the circuit court in 1866, and chairman of the county board of supervisors in 1877. He was not a candidate for re-election in 1879, and was succeeded by Republican James McMurdo.
Membership
He was elected as a member of the assembly in 1877 as a "Reform Democrat", receiving 1,011 votes to 818 for Greenbacker West. Doctorate. Jordan (Democratic incumbent John James Knowlton was not a candidate for re-election). And re-elected as a Democrat for 1878, receiving 1,256 votes against 297 for Republican Doctor L. Tabor and 593 for the Greenback Jordan.
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