Biography extracted from History of Sauk County, Wisconsin Chicago: Western Historical Company, published 1880.

Greenfield:

Joseph Stotler, son of Roman and Lucinda Stotler, was born in Prussia, Dec. 18, 1822; was a soldier in the Prussian Cavalry service for six years; came to America in 1854, and was married in Buffalo, N.Y., to Miss Lucinda Feter, by whom he has five sons – John, Charles, Sophia, Louis and Joseph; and two daughters – Alme and Lucinda. Mr. Stotler spent one year in Madison and in 1855 he removed to Greenfield, Sec. 14, where he now owns 256 acres of meadow and upland, with an orchard of 150 bearing trees, and buildings that cost about $1,500. When he first came to the Bluffs, there were many deer; sometimes they came in herds of twelve or twenty; one winter, when there was a deep snow and a thin crust, the slaughtered great numbers of them. Mr. Stotler has been very fortunate in business and has a nice income aside from the proceeds of his farm. He is a Republican in politics, and a member of the Roman Catholic.

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