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{{Short description|19th century American businessman and politician}}
{{Infobox officeholder
|name = Sam Fifield
|image = Samuel Fifield.png
|imagesize =
|alt =
|caption =
|order = 14th
|office = Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin
| governor = [[Jeremiah McLain Rusk|Jeremiah Rusk]]
| term_start = January 2, 1882
| term_end = January 3, 1887
| predecessor = [[James M. Bingham]]
| successor = [[George Washington Ryland|George W. Ryland]]
|order1 = 26th
|title1 = Speaker of the [[Wisconsin State Assembly|Wisconsin Assembly]]
| term_start1 = January 12, 1876
| term_end1 = January 1, 1877
| predecessor1 = [[Frederick W. Horn]]
| successor1 = [[John B. Cassoday]]
|state2 = Wisconsin
|state_senate2 = Wisconsin
|district2 = [[Wisconsin Senate, District 24|24th]]
| term_start2 = January 1, 1880
| term_end2 = January 1, 1882
| predecessor2 = [[Dana Reed Bailey]]
| successor2 = [[James Hill (Wisconsin state legislator)|James Hill]]
| term_start3 = January 1, 1877
| term_end3 = January 1, 1878
| predecessor3 = [[Henry D. Barron]]
| successor3 = [[Dana Reed Bailey]]
|state_assembly4 = Wisconsin
|district4 = [[Ashland County, Wisconsin|Ashland]]-[[Barron County, Wisconsin|Barron]]-[[Bayfield County, Wisconsin|Bayfield]]-[[Burnett County, Wisconsin|Burnett]]-[[Douglas County, Wisconsin|Douglas]]-[[Polk County, Wisconsin|Polk]]
| term_start4 = January 1, 1874
| term_end4 = January 1, 1877
| predecessor4 = [[Henry D. Barron]]
| successor4 = [[Woodbury S. Grover]]
|birth_name =
|birth_date = June 24, 1839
|birth_place = [[Corinna, Maine]]
|death_date = February 17, 1915 (aged 75)
|death_place = [[Ashland, Wisconsin]]
|restingplace = Mount Hope Cemetery <br />Ashland, Wisconsin
|party = [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]
|spouse = {{unbulleted list
| Stella Grimes
| (died 1913)
}}
|children = {{unbulleted list
| Lillian (Payne)
| (b. 1868; died 1956)
}}
|residence = [[Ashland, Wisconsin]]
|alma_mater =
|religion =
|website =
}}

'''Samuel S. Fifield''' (June 24, 1839{{spaced ndash}}February 17, 1915)<ref>
*{{cite book |chapter-url=https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/misc/lrb/blue_book/2005_2006/840_history.pdf |editor=Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau |chapter=Wisconsin Constitutional Officers, 1848-2005 |title=State of Wisconsin Blue Book 2005–2006 |location=Madison |publisher=Wisconsin Legislature Joint Committee on Legislative Organization |year=2005 |page=725 |access-date=April 3, 2018 }}
*{{cite web |url=http://ltgov.wisconsin.gov/subcategory.asp?linksubcatid=2078&linkcatid=2042&linkid=1070&locid=126 |title=Sam S. Fifield |access-date=October 6, 2007 |publisher=Office of the Lieutenant Governor |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100528100915/http://ltgov.wisconsin.gov/subcategory.asp?linksubcatid=2078&linkcatid=2042&linkid=1070&locid=126 |archive-date=May 28, 2010 }}</ref> was a [[Wisconsin]] politician and influential [[businessperson]]. The [[Fifield, Wisconsin|Town of Fifield]] in [[Price County, Wisconsin]] is named after him.

==Biography==

He was born in [[Corinna, Maine]], in 1839 and received an education as a printer. He moved to Wisconsin in 1854, where he worked as a clerk on a [[steamboat]] on the [[St. Croix River (Wisconsin–Minnesota)|St. Croix River]]. He founded the ''Polk County Press'' in 1861.<ref name="WBB">{{cite book |editor=James E. Heg |title=The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin |edition=23 |location=Madison |publisher=Democrat Printing Co. |year=1885 |page=416 |url=http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/WI/WI-idx?type=goto&id=WI.WIBlueBk1885&page=416&isize=L}}</ref>

After the [[American Civil War]], he entered politics and served as a [[Sergeant-at-Arms]] for the [[Wisconsin State Assembly]] in 1871 and 1872. He later served as a [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] member of the Assembly from 1874 through 1876, serving as [[Speaker (politics)|speaker]] the last year.<ref name="WBB" /> He was elected to the [[Wisconsin State Senate]] in 1876, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of [[Henry D. Barron]]. He served in the state senate until 1881, at which time he was elected as Wisconsin's [[List of lieutenant governors of Wisconsin|14th]] [[Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin|Lieutenant Governor]].<ref name="WBB" />

He lived in [[Ashland, Wisconsin|Ashland]] from 1872, and helped found the ''[[Ashland Daily Press|Ashland Press]]'' newspaper. He was the chairman of the first [[board of supervisors]] in June 1872.<ref name="WBB" />

After retiring from politics in 1887, he served as postmaster in Ashland,<ref name="Peterson">Peterson, Sheree L. "Camp Stella: Meeting Place of Kindred Souls," report for the [[Eastern National Park and Monument Association]], 1997</ref> and opened a summer resort on [[Sand Island (Wisconsin)|Sand Island]] in [[Lake Superior]].<ref name="Busch">Busch, Jane C. ''People and Places: a Human History of the Apostle Islands'', prepared for National Park Service, 2008.</ref> Named Camp Stella, after Fifield's wife, the camp was one of the first successful resorts in northern Wisconsin.<ref name="Peterson" /> The site is now within the boundaries of the [[Apostle Islands National Lakeshore]]; many of the buildings are still standing, and one, the [[Sevona Cabin|Sevona Memorial Cottage]], is listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]].<ref name="Busch" />

Fifield died in 1915 at his home in Ashland.<ref name="WBB" /> In Ashland, there is a street of historic homes named Fifield Row in his honor.

[[File:Sam Fifield Grave.jpg|thumb|right|Sam Fifield is buried next to his wife, Stella, at Mount Hope Cemetery in [[Ashland, Wisconsin|Ashland]].]]

== References ==
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{{s-ttl|title = Member of the [[Wisconsin Senate]] {{nowrap|from the [[Wisconsin Senate, District 24|24th]] district}}|years=1880{{spaced ndash}}1882}}
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