From History of Walworth County Wisconsin by Albert Clayton Beckwith, Vol. II, 
Publ. 1912 - Page 788-789
 
JOHN BOLTZ.  By a life of persistent and well applied industry led along the 
most honorable lines, the gentleman whose name appears above has justly earned 
the right to be represented in a work of the character of the one at hand, 
along with the other men of Walworth county  who have made their influence 
felt in their respective localities.
 
John BOLTZ, a successful farmer of Lagrange township, was born in Jefferson 
county, Wisconsin, October 22, 1866.  He is the son of Andrew and Amelia 
(MILLER) BOLTZ, both natives of Germany, the father born on April 2, 1830, and 
the mother in April 1829.  There they grew to maturity and were educated.  
Andrew BOLTZ emigrated to America in 1853 and settled in Jefferson county, 
Wisconsin, and later Amelia MILER came, and they were married there in 1860.  
They found a good home in the new country and there reared their five 
children, four of whom are living at this writing.  These parents owned 
seventy-seven acres of land in Jefferson county, and there the father is 
living retired, his wife having died in 1889.  In politics he is a Democrat 
and a member of the Catholic church.
 
John BOLTZ, of this review, was reared on the home farm and was educated in 
the district schools and early in life he turned his attention to farming.  He 
came to Walworth county in 1888 and worked out in order to get a start and in 
1892 he bought the farm in Lagrange township of one hundred and fifty-six 
acres, which he still owns and on which he has made a very comfortable living 
as a general farmer and dairyman, always keeping an excellent grade of live 
stock.
 
Politically, Mr. BOLTZ is a Republican, but he has never made an effort to be 
a leader in the affairs of his community.  He was married in 1896 to Minnie 
Helena WINN, who was born in Jefferson county, Wisconsin, December 11, 1876, 
the daughter of John H. WINN, a farmer of Lagrange township.  To the subject 
and wife have been born one son, Leroy J., whose birth occurred on September 
25, 1905.  The BOLTZ family have all be characterized for their thrift and 
industry.
 
Submitted by Carol