Anson Waterman Pope (June 30, 1812 – October 5, 1871) was an American who served three discontinuous one-year terms as a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly, in 1849 as a Whig, and in 1861 and 1866 as a Republican, while living in Janesville, Wisconsin. He spent his last few years as an orchardist in Cedar County, Missouri. [1]
His daughter Ada was married at one time to the conman James Addison Reavis, the self-styled "Baron of Arizona".
References
- ^ 'Anson W. Pope-Death Notice,' Sparta Herald (Wisconsin), October 31, 1871
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