Arthur C. Neville
American mayor
Arthur Courtenay Neville (October 13, 1850 – May 20, 1929) was an American lawyer and historian, and was the 25th Mayor of Green Bay, Wisconsin. He is the namesake of Neville Public Museum of Brown County in Green Bay.
Education and career
Neville was born in 1850 at Pottsville, Pennsylvania, and moved as a young child with his parents to Green Bay, Wisconsin, in 1856. He received his early education from a governess and later attended the public schools at Green Bay until age 17. He went to work as a clerk and messenger for the firm of Dousman & Elmore, and was then employed as a bookkeeper for the Chicago lumber firm Carter & Jones until 1869. He worked from 1869 to 1871 as an assistant bookkeeper for the wholesale grocer Sprague, Warner & Company.
In 1871, he returned to Green Bay as bookkeeper for the Commercial National Bank. The next year, he went to work in his father's law offices of Neville & Tracy, reading law there for the next three years until his admission to the State Bar of Wisconsin at the Wisconsin circuit court in 1874.
Neville worked for several years as a practicing attorney, and became a prominent member of the Democratic Party in Green Bay. In 1888 he was elected Mayor of Green Bay on the Democratic "Peoples'" ticket, defeating incumbent mayor Charles Hartung.
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