Biography: Winnebago County, Wisconsin: John Mentzer ************************************************************************ Submitted by Kathy Grace, December 2004 © All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ************************************************************************ History of northern Wisconsin: containing an account of its settlement, growth, development, and resources, an extensive sketch of its counties, cities, towns and villages, their improvements, industries, manufactories, biographical sketches, portraits of prominent men and early settlers, views of county seats, etc. Chicago: Western Historical Co., 1881 p. 1155 John Mentzer, proprietor of saloon and dealer in tobacco and cigars, 37 High street. He was born in Germany Dec. 9, 1846. He emigrated to America in June, 1869, and settled in Oshkosh, Wis. He followed shoemaking, having learned his trade in Germany, working three years there and four years in Oshkosh; then he clerked in a boot and shoe and grocery store for one year; then he clerked in a grocery and saloon store for four and a half years; then he returned to Germany and remained from June, 1878, until May, 1879, and came back to Oshkosh and ran a saloon for another party fourteen months, then he began in his present place for himself. He was married in Oshkosh in May, 1881, to Miss Louisa Lichtenberger. She was born in Milwaukee, Wis., in 1854.