JOHN D. PFLEISTERER, owner and proprietor St. Charles Hotel, corner Wisconsin and Walnut streets, Muscoda, was born in Wurtemberg in 1831. He is a son of Philip and Catherine Mueller Pflisterer, both natives of Germany. His father was a soldier under Napoleon during the campaign in Russia, with the rank of a non-commissioned officer. John D. was educated and learned the butcher's trade in his native place; he came to America in 1852, and located in Cincinnati, where he remained two years, then came to Champaign Co., Ill., where he worked for Frank Cass, farmer and stock-raiser, for ten years; then he came to Muscoda in 1865, and bought the old Muscoda Brewery, and carried on the business until 1869, when he sold the brewery to John Postel, and bought the hotel he now occupies. In 1857, he married Miss Elizabeth Hus, by whom he had three children, who are all deceased, and his wife died in 1863. The same year he married Miss Anna Meyer, a native of Bohemia, by whom he has one girl. He has always been in active life, and accumulated by his own economy and industry.

This biography generously submitted by Roxanne Munns.