John M. Wells
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John M. Wells | |
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| Member of the Wisconsin State Assembly from the Waukesha 4th district | |
| In office January 1, 1849 – January 7, 1850 | |
| Preceded by | George M. Humphrey |
| Succeeded by | John E. Gallagher |
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John Moon Wells was an American farmer, teacher, and pioneer of Waukesha, Wisconsin. He served a single term in the Wisconsin State Assembly, representing Waukesha and New Berlin in the 1849 session. He was elected on the Free Soil Party ticket.[1]
Wells arrived in Waukesha County in 1837, and served as the first public school teacher in the village's tamarack log schoolhouse, during the winter of 1837–1838, with a student body of between 25 and 30 children.[2][3]: 436, 486, 628, 688
He was a member of the local Congregational Church (built in 1839), and participated in an ecumenical evangelical group known locally as "The Prairieville Breaking Team" which went around to the neighboring schoolhouses and villages to hold prayer meetings, and whose enthusiasm was deemed almost Methodist in its pious fervor.[3]: 646