PETER WENTZ, southwest quarter Sec. 3; P. O. Platteville; born July, 1814, in Scheresfeldt, Bavaria, where he married Sarah Miller; his early life was spent at farming and coal mining. In 1854, he brought his family to the United States, spent eighteen months in Pennsylvania, then came to Platteville where he first bought 10 acres which he sold. Next he bought 40 acres on Sec. 3, which he sold in 1877, and that year bought his present 160-acre farm of I. Penberthy. Mr. and Mrs. Wentz have four children - Barbara, Sarah, Charlotta and Christian, all four in Bavaria; the only son, born March 23, 1852, married Mary Linden, who was born in Potosi, Grant County, Wis.

This biography generously submitted by Roxanne Munns.