Alonzo John Mathison (July 13, 1876 – November 11, 1941) was an American machinist, businessman, and politician. Mathison was born in

Stoughton, Wisconsin Stoughton ( ) is a city in Dane County, Wisconsin, United States. It straddles the Yahara River about southeast of the state capital, Madison, Wisconsin, Madison. As of the 2020 census, the population was 13,173. Stoughton is part of the Madison ...

, the son of Thorwald C. Mathison (1852–1894) and Carrie (née Jacobson) Mathison (1845–1919). He worked in a grocery store and then worked as a machine shop foreman for Fairbanks Morse & Company in

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. Mathison was also in the real estate business. Mathison served on the Beloit Common Council. In 1919, Mathison served in the

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as a Republican. Mathison died at his home in Beloit following a long illness, and he was buried at Riverside Cemetery in Stoughton.

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