Men of Progress. Wisconsin. (pages 316-350) A selected list of biographical sketches and portraits of the leaders in business, professional and official life. Together with short notes on the history and character of Wisconsin.

BACH, James Anthony, M. D., an accomplished physician of Milwaukee, is the son of Matthias Bach, a farmer in moderate circumstances, who was one of the early settlers of Washington county, Wis. Mr. Bach, by industry, economy and a wise use of the means at this disposal, worked himself up to a position of comfort, in spite of the many disadvantages which he had to encounter. He is now robnat and hearty at the age of eighty-three years.

His wife, Anna Mootz, Dr. Bach's mother, is a woman of exceptional executive ability, considering the limited opportunities which she has had for culture and for the exercise of her talents. She, too, is still living at the age of seventy-seven, in the full possession of all her faculties. The grandparents of the doctor were successful merchants in a small way, near Luxemburg, Germany.

Dr. Bach was born in Washington county, Wis., on the 13th of October, 1860. He attended the public schools in his native town and Milwaukee, and afterward was a student in the Oshkosh Normal school. From 1878 to 1880 was devoted to teaching the public school of his district. He then pursued a special course in the University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor. After that he entered the medical department of the university, and, taking the regular course, was graduated in 1884 with the degree of M. D. After receiving his medical degree, he began the general practice of his profession in Milwaukee, and continued it for three years, meeting with marked success. He then went to Europe, where he spent two years in a course of study relating more especially to the eye, ear, nose and throat. On his return from Europe he took up practice in the line of his specialties, the eye, ear, nose and throat, and has built up a large practice in those departments of the profession. Dr. Bach is professor of ophthalmology and otology in the Wisconsin College of Physicians and Surgeons, besides being connected with several hospitals and institutions.

Dr. Bach is an Independent in politics, and a Catholic in religion. He belongs to several Milwaukee clubs and medical societies, and to the State and National Medical associations.

June 24th, 1896, the doctor was married to Catherine E. Pick, daughter of John Pick, a prominent merchant of West Bend, Wisconsin. Mrs. Bach is a graduate of the West Bend high school and later took a post- graduate course at Long Wood, Chicago, giving particular attention to the study of music and painting, in which she has become very proficient. Dr. and Mrs. Bach have one child, a son.

The doctor has four brothers and four sisters, all of whom are in good circumstances.