MICHAEL MONTAG, farmer, Sec. 27; P. O. Dickeyville; owns 185 acres; son of Henry and Martha Elizabeth Montag; was born in Katharinenberg, Saxony, Prussia, April 10, 1846; his father was born in the same place, and his mother at Eisstrut, Saxony; she died in August, 1870, aged 46 years; his father moved to the United States and settled on Sec. 27, Town 2, Range 2 west, where Michael now lives. He was married Jan. 9, 1871, to Miss Catharine Brant, daughter of Andrew and Victoria Brant, of Jamestown; they have five children - Henry, Justin, Charles, Dorothea and Andrew. He is a School Director, a Republican and a Catholic. His father was Burgomaster of his native village in Germany, and, after he moved to Wisconsin, he was elected, in 1867, Justice of the Peace; he is still living in Dickeyville; he was the second German who settled in the town of Paris; a zealous Catholic, he helped to build the St. Mary's German Catholic Church at Jamestown, afterward the "Holy Ghost" Chapel, German Catholic Church, at Dickeyville.

This biography generously submitted by Roxanne Munns.