Temple of Honor and Temperance and the Knights of Pythias, and for years was a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. By 1895, Fagg was reported to have suffered financial reversals, and to be working as day labor at the Wisconsin State Capitol building. He spent some time working in the library of the State Historical Society, and in the office of the Secretary of State. When he went to Milwaukee in 1896 to attend the funeral of his step-father, the Wisconsin State Journal observed, "Of the sixty-two voters in the family and connections of Peter Fagg, there is only one [D]emocrat." In 1900, he was an agent authorized to collect money for Boer soldiers wounded during the Second Boer War. (A Chicago paper had already reported Fagg as having donated to this cause, along with a number of Irish-Americans presumably doing so to "twist the lion's tail". When a bill was before the legislature to introduce primary elections as a replacement for nomination by party conventions, the Kenosha News bemoaninbg the potential diminishing effect on party conventions, asked rhetorically (quoting a Chicago Record reporter) "... where else can the Hon. Peter Fagg cut a picturesque and historical figure?" Fagg died December 10, 1917 after a long illness and six months of blindness, leaving his invalid wife, five sons and two daughters (a third had died just three years before). References External links 1837 births American booksellers American police officers American temperance activists Clerks County supervisors in Wisconsin Dutch emigrants to the United States Employees of the Wisconsin Legislature Retail clerks Members of the Wisconsin State Assembly People from Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin Politicians from Madison, Wisconsin People from Milwaukee People from Vlissingen Wisconsin Democrats Wisconsin Reformers (19th century) 19th-century American politicians Wisconsin Republicans 1917 deaths 19th-century American businesspeople