CHARLES WEITTENHILLER, manufacturer of cooperage; was born in 1844 in Bavaria, Germany; came to America in 1853 with his parents and settled in Platteville, where they still reside. Learned his trade of his father, Sebastian Weitenheiller, who carried on the same business in Platteville till 1864. Charles Weittenhiller enlisted in February, 1864, in the 25th W. V. I., Company E., and was in the service till the close of the war. On the 22d of July, 1864, he was taken prisoner at Decatur, Ga., and was two months in Andersonville Prison, before he was discharged. He has been in business since 1867. He was married in 1867, in Platteville, to Miss Jennie Marshall, daughter of E. H. Marshall, and has four children - Cora, Addie, Marenus and Charles; has been Justice of the Peace for the last four years, and was on the Village Board one year.

This biography generously submitted by Roxanne Munns.