Max Bergmuller 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 Muscoda, Biographical Sketches, Page 962

MAX BERGMULLER, farmer; P. O. Muscoda; farm contains 80 acres, and is located in 
Sec 8, in this town, residence in the village. He was born in Bavaria in 1833, 
where he was educated, and learned the tanners trade.  After learning his trade, 
he traveled quite extensively through Europe during six years, working at his 
trade in different places. He is a son of Simon and Madelina Bergmuller, natives 
of Bavaria. He came to America in 1853, stopping a few weeks in Milwaukee, and 
working for Pfuster & Vogle at his trade, then came to Muscoda and bought the 
farm which he now owns. He enlisted November, 1863, in the 2d Wisconsin Battery, 
which was attached to the Army of the Potomac. He served with them until the 
close of the war, and was mustered out at Milwaukee in 1865. In 1856, he married 
Miss Christina Neff, by whom he has five children, four girls and one son - 
Ludwig - twenty years old, who assists his father on the farm.