Rev. John B. Bachman Biography - Grant County Wisconsin

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

History of Grant County Wisconsin
Western Historical Publishing, Chicago, July 1881
Town of Wingville, Biographical Sketches, Page 991 

REV. JOHN B. BACHMAN, Pastor of M. E. Church, Montfort; was born at Millheim, 
Center Co., Penn., Sept. 22, 1828.  His father died when he was 18 years of age.  
He came to Green Co., Wis., in the spring of 1848; attended school at the Green 
County Seminary for three years; was afterward a teacher in that institution for 
three years; entered the ministry in 1857; has had charge of churches at Oregon, 
Dane Co., two years; Lodi, Columbia Co., two years; Mauston, Juneau Co.; Portage 
City; returned to Oregon; Baraboo one year; returned to Lodi.  He was then 
Presiding Elder of Kilbourn City District from 1868 to 1872; returned to 
Mauston, Sparta, Eau Claire, Reedsburg, Black Earth, Fayette; came to Montfort 
Oct. 1,1880.  His wife was Miss Eliza J. Field, born in Ontario Co., N. Y.; they 
have two children - E. Walton, born in August, 1854, now a student of the 
Medical Department of Wisconsin State University, and Allie, born October, 1863.