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

Prairie du Sac:

William Lenz, proprietor of the Sauk City Brewery; was born in Baden, Germany, in 1825; in 1848, he came to this country and located in Milwaukee, Wis., where he resided until 1850; after that he went to several pl-aces in the United States; has been engaged in brewing in Sauk City since 1868. He married, in Milwaukee, Miss Elizabeth Hamm; they have nine children- Mary (wife of Oscar Staddleman, Mazomanie, Wis.), Emil (in Milwaukee), Adolph, Gustav, Louise, Willie, George, Lena and Johana, at home.

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