Theophilus Albert Willy | |
State: | Wisconsin |
State Senate: | Wisconsin |
District: | 14th |
Term Start: | 1901 |
Term End: | 1905 |
Office2: | Wisconsin State Assembly |
Term Start2: | 1899 |
Term End2: | 1901 |
Party: | Republican |
Birth Date: | April 16, 1845 |
Birth Place: | Somersetshire, England |
Death Date: | 1916 |
Theophilus Albert Willy was a Republican member of the Wisconsin Legislature.[1]
He was born on April 16, 1845, at Somersetshire, England, where he was educated. In 1866 he came to Appleton, Wisconsin, where he worked as a miller and buyer of grain for a few years. From 1870 to 1878 he was a manufacturer of staves (wooden parts for barrels) and lumber, and was also a dealer of merchandise. In 1878 he returned to his former occupation in the grain industry.[2]
Willy was a member of the State Assembly from 1899 to 1901, and then served in the State Senate from 1901 to 1905.[3]
He died in 1916, and is buried in Forest Hill Cemetery in Madison, Wisconsin.[4]