John J. Wenzel From History of Grant County, Wisconsin, 1881, p. 890.

LANCASTER

HENKEL & WENZEL proprietors of saloon and restaurant. This business was established in December, 1874, in their own building, which was constructed the same year.
     John J. Wenzel, of this firm, is a native of Germany, born March 3, 1841, a son of Conrad and Margaret (Werth) Wenzel, who came to the United States in the summer of 1848, settling in Delaware, where they lived eight years. In the spring of 1857, they moved to Grant Co., settling on a farm four miles from Lancaster. John J., the subject of this sketch, spent the earlier years of his life on the farm, which he left in 1871, and came to Lancaster, where he and his father opened a saloon. In February, 1862, he was married to Miss Christina Trump, daughter of Henry Highstreet, of Pennsylvania, a native of Switzerland. Mr. Wenzel was elected Constable in Liberty, and is a member of the I. O. O. F. The family are members of the Evangelical Church.

 


This biography generously submitted by Roxanne Munns.