Lake County Biographies

MARCUS MUNZ

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Is a native of St. Louis, Missouri, and was born April 21, 1835.  When he was 
but a child, his parents moved to Iowa.  At the age of fifteen Marcus engaged 
with the American Fur Company with whom he remained until 1857.  He then went to 
Fort Laramie, and acted as interpreter and did trading with the Indians for two 
years.  He then went to the Indian Nation, where he remained until 1862, when he 
went to Kansas and engaged in farming until 1875, when he came to California, 
and after spending a short time at Dixon, came to Lake County, and located at 
Middletown, where he is engaged in the brewing business.  Mr. Munz married, 
March 6, 1864, Miss Mary Robertson, a native of Indiana.  Their children are, 
Andrew, Chrysanthea, William, Alice and Emma.  They have lost one, Rosie.
 
History of Napa and Lake Counties, California, publ. 1881 � pg. 267