Bio: Vandercook, Gilbert E. (No dates given)

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Surnames: Vandercook

----Source: History of Marathon County Wisconsin and Representative Citizens, by Louis Marchetti, 1913.

Vandercook, Gilbert (No dates given)

Gilbert E. Vandercook was born at Newberg, Washington County, Wisconsin, and after receiving a common school education, entered the county printing office and served an apprenticeship. He edited several papers in northern Wisconsin, one of which was the Spencer Tribune in Spencer, in Marathon County; was appointed chief clerk in the state department at Madison in 1895, and afterwards assistant secretary of state. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin Law School in 1896. He had severed his connection with the Spencer Tribune when he went to Madison, but still claimed a residence there; it was said for political purposes. Certain it is that after his election as member of assembly he never returned to Spencer to reside there, which gives color to the charge that his claim of residence was a fictitious one. He was employed in the Milwaukee Sentinel after the assembly adjourned and reported for Chicago papers at the same time, and held high rank as a newspaper writer.