Peter Henkel & John Wenzel Biography - Grant County Wisconsin

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Submitted by David W. Taft, October 2002, dtaft@cowtown.net

Source:

1881 History of Grant Co., Wisconsin
Western Historical Company, Chicago, IL
Biographical Sketches, Lancaster, Pg. 891


HENKEL & WENZEL, proprietors of saloon and restaurant. This business was 
established in December, 1874, in their own building, which was constructed the same 
year.

Peter Henkel is a native of Germany, born March 8, 1840, a son of Henry and Mary 
(Fritz) Henkel, who both died in Germany.  He came to Lancaster direct, arriving there 
June 15, 1858; he was engaged in farming until August, 1862, when he volunteered as 
a private in Co. C. 25th W. V. I., Capt. Ferguson.  He went to the front in Minnesota, 
where he was detailed to watch the Indians; afterward sent to Cairo, and thence to 
Vicksburg, where they joined the army; he served until the close of the war, and was 
mustered out in the summer of 1865.  Nov. 20, 1868, he was married to Miss Louisa 
Barmonn; they have one son, Louis H.

John J. Wenzel, of this firm, is a native of Germany, born March 3 1841, a son of 
Conrad and Margaret (Werth) Wenzel, who came to the United States in the summer of 
1848, settling in Delaware, where they lived eight years.  In the spring of 1857, they 
moved to Grant Co., settling on a farm four miles from Lancaster.  John J., the subject 
of this sketch, spent the earlier years of his life on the farm, which he left in 1871, 
and came to Lancaster, where he and his father opened a saloon.  In February, 1862, he 
was married to Miss Christina Trump, daughter of Henry Highstreet, of Pennsylvania, a 
native of Switzerland.  Mr. Wenzel was elected Constable in Liberty, and is a member of 
the I. O. O. F.  The family are members of the Evangelical Church.