# Job Grant

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**Job N. Grant** (October 4, 1832 – 1910) was an American farmer from the Town of [Wonewoc](/source/Wonewoc_(town),_Wisconsin), [Wisconsin](/source/Wisconsin), near [Union Center](/source/Union_Center,_Wisconsin), who held a number of local public offices, and spent a single one-year term as a [Reform Party](/source/Reform_Party_(19th-century_Wisconsin)) member of the [Wisconsin State Assembly](/source/Wisconsin_State_Assembly) from [Juneau County](/source/Juneau_County,_Wisconsin).[1]

## Background

Grant was born in 1832 in England. At the age of eight, he emigrated with his mother to the United States. He lived with her in [Monroe County, New York](/source/Monroe_County,_New_York). where he received a [common school](/source/Common_school) education and worked on farms. He left for Wisconsin in 1850, sojourning for one summer in [Lake Mills](/source/Lake_Mills,_Wisconsin) in [Jefferson County](/source/Jefferson_County,_Wisconsin) before moving on to what is now Juneau County, and in 1851 settled in the [Town](/source/Political_subdivisions_of_Wisconsin#Towns) of [Wonewoc](/source/Wonewoc_(town),_Wisconsin). In the fall of 1852, he cut a road from his place to the [Village](/source/Political_subdivisions_of_Wisconsin#Villages) of [Wonewoc](/source/Wonewoc,_Wisconsin), and also helped open the road to [Mauston](/source/Mauston,_Wisconsin), over which he was the first to [drive a team](/source/Driving_(horse)#Teams). In March 1853, he left for [California](/source/California), where he stayed for six years and three months, working on farms and as a [teamster](/source/Teamster).

## Return to Wisconsin

He returned to Wisconsin in 1859, reporting that he had [netted](/source/Net_(economics)) only one dollar from all his time in California. That year he married Julia N. Huff, a native of [Philadelphia, Pennsylvania](/source/Philadelphia,_Pennsylvania) born in 1840; by 1881 they would have five children. He purchased 160 [acres](/source/Acre) in [Section 8](/source/Section_(United_States_land_surveying)) of the township, later adding more, on which he built a farm. On November 17, 1863, he was [drafted](/source/Conscription) for the [United States Army](/source/United_States_Army) but [paid $300 for a substitute, as the law of the time permitted](/source/American_Civil_War#Mobilization).

## Politics

Grant was a [Democrat](/source/Democratic_Party_(United_States)) by affiliation.[2] From 1860 he held various office in his town, including chairman, [treasurer](/source/Treasurer), [assessor](/source/Assessor_(law)), and [justice of the peace](/source/Justice_of_the_peace); and in 1872 was an unsuccessful candidate for county treasurer. In 1874 he was elected to the Juneau County Assembly seat as a member of the [Liberal Reform Party](/source/Reform_Party_(19th-century_Wisconsin)) (a short-lived [coalition](/source/Coalition) of Democrats, [reform](/source/Reform) and [Liberal](/source/Liberal_Republican_Party_(United_States)) [Republicans](/source/Republican_Party_(United_States)), and [Grangers](/source/The_National_Grange_of_the_Order_of_Patrons_of_Husbandry) formed in 1873 which elected one [Governor of Wisconsin](/source/Governor_of_Wisconsin) and a number of state legislators). He won 1,403 votes, to 1,215 for Republican R. Moulton (Republican incumbent [John Tabor Kingston](/source/John_T._Kingston) was not a candidate for re-election). He was assigned to the [standing committee](/source/Standing_committee) on [roads](/source/Roads) and [bridges](/source/Bridge).[3] He sought re-election in 1875, but (with the Reform movement already on the wane) was unseated by Republican [Charles Erwin Booth](/source/Charles_Erwin_Booth), with 741 votes to 1,531 for Booth.

## Later life

On May 8, 1878, he was a member of the Juneau County [Board of Supervisors](/source/Board_of_supervisors) from Wonewoc, and was elected as chairman of the board at a [special meeting](/source/Special_meeting) of that body held to consider proposed improvements to the County [Jail](/source/Jail).[4]

He died in 1910, and is buried in the Pine Eden Cemetery in Wonewoc, along with Julia Ann Grant (1840-1913), whose stone describes her as "Wife of Job N. Grant".

## References

1. ["Members of the Wisconsin Legislature 1848–1999 State of Wisconsin Legislative Bureau. Information Bulletin 99-1, September 1999. p. 55](https://web.archive.org/web/20011118135418/http://www.legis.state.wi.us/lrb/pubs/ib/99ib1.pdf)

1. Andreas, N. T., ed. *History of Northern Wisconsin*. Chicago: The Western Historical Company, p. 393

1. [Bashford, R. M., ed. *The legislative manual of the state of Wisconsin: comprising the constitutions of the United States and of the state of Wisconsin, Jefferson's manual, forms and laws for the regulation of business; also, lists and tables for reference, etc.* Fourteenth Annual Edition. Madison: Atwood and Culver, Printers and Stereotypers, 1875; pp. 244, 326](http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/WI.WIBlueBk1875)

1. "Proceedings of the County Board Supervisors" *[Mauston Star](/source/Mauston_Star)* May 9, 1878; p. 1

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