John Blumberg

Both John and his wife, Dorothy, were members of prominent German families. John was obliged to leave his home country of Germany because of the revolutionary troubles of 1849. He and his wife, Dorothy, immigrated to the United States. They arrived in this country on Jan15, 1854

During Civil War he served in the17th Wisconsin Volunteers. He was severly wounded in 1863, but returned to active duty He was a good and faithful soldier of his adopted country.

He engaged in lumbering in the Wisconsin forests, and owned and operated a sawmill at Newburg in that state.