Memorial and biographical record and illustrated compendium of biography ..of ..citizens of Columbia . in handling the large farm left in hercharse. JOHN JACOB GATTIKER, John Jacob Gattiker, deceased, throughforty years of his identification with Saukcounty enjo\-s the highest respect of hisfellow citizens by reason of his strict in-tegrity, true manhood and intellectual attain-ments. He was a gentleman of refinementand culture, and his deportment was alwayscourteous and kind. His devotion to thepubfic welfare also made him a valued factorin public life, and by his death Baraboo was
Memorial and biographical record and illustrated compendium of biography ..of ..citizens of Columbia . in handling the large farm left in hercharse. JOHN JACOB GATTIKER, John Jacob Gattiker, deceased, throughforty years of his identification with Saukcounty enjo\-s the highest respect of hisfellow citizens by reason of his strict in-tegrity, true manhood and intellectual attain-ments. He was a gentleman of refinementand culture, and his deportment was alwayscourteous and kind. His devotion to thepubfic welfare also made him a valued factorin public life, and by his death Baraboo wasdeprived of one of her best citizens. A por-trait of him appears on another page of JOHH JACOB GATTIKER. (Deceased.) COMPENDIUM OF BIOGRAPHY. G23 y Mr. Gattiker was born in Zurich, Swit-zerland, April 18, 1826, a son of Henry andMaria M. Gattiker, also natives of Zurich,and representatives of good old Swiss fam-ilies. The father was a teacher and fol-lowed that profession in Zurich through-out life, dying there when our subject was ayoung man. In 1871 his widow came totile new world and died in Baraboo, Wiscon-sin, the same year, at the age of seventy-six. Our subject was given excellent educa-tional ad\antages, and at the age of twentygraduated from a college in Zurich, afterwhich he engaged in teaching for ten yearsin a gymnasium there, where the languagesand higher branches were taught, his specialstudies being French, mathematics andItalian. Later he was a i)ri\ate tutor in anEnglish family at Chamberi, Italy. In 1855 Mr. Gattiker came to the UnitedStates and located on a farm in HoneyCreek township, Sauk county, Wisconsin,where he devoted his energies to agricul
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