From History of Grant County, Wisconsin, 1881, p. 969.

JOHN J. POSTEL, brewer, Muscoda, born in Florida in 1842. Came to Wisconsin in 1857 and located in Muscoda, purchased the brewery in 1869, and remodeled the same. Has worked the business up to one of the main industries of the town; employs seven men, and ships beer all over the western portion of the State. Enlisted in 1861 in the 14th W. V. I., Co. K; mustered out as a Captain in 1865, at the close of the war. Married, in 1865, to Miss Mary Smith, a native of Wisconsin, by whom he has six children - two sons and four daughters. Is a good business man, and has built around him a large property, and justly deserves his increasing business.

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