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- [S975323565] 1918, Biography of August Meyer.
AUGUST MEYER, whose name and position as one of the progressive
farmers of Westfield Township appropriately belongs in the record of
Sauk County, has spent all his life in this county and is a member of a
pioneer family.
He was born in Westfield Township February 5, 1873, a son of Henry
and Dora Meyer. His parents came. to Wisconsin from the Kingdom of
Hanover, Germany, in 1860, locating on a, tract of forty acres of wild and
unimproved land in Westfield Township. Later the father moved to Dan
O 'Hearn 's place in Washington Township. Still later he bought 240 acres
and in 1900 rounded out his possessions with another forty acres. During
these many years Henry Meyer eame to be recognized as one of Sauk
County 's. most progressive and successful farmers. He and his. wife had
seven children: Henry, William, Fred, August, Dora, Anna and Sophia.
Mr. August Meyer was educated in the German Lutheran schools and
grew to manhood with a, competent training in the vocation which he has
successfully followed. In November, 1907, he located on his present farm
of eighty acres and is handling that most capably as a general farming and
stock-raising proposition. Mr. Meyer is a republican and a member of the
Lutheran Church, in which he was reared from. early childhood. Decem-
ber 23, 1908, he married Miss Mary Wiese, daughter of M. and Elizabeth
(Schmidt) Wiese. Mr. and Mrs. Meyer had three children, Henry, Annie
and Edward, the two latter now deceased. The son Henry was born
November 7, 1909.
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