Bio: Metzgar, John J., Capt. (1881) 
Poster: Sandra Wright
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----Source: History of Northern Wisconsin (Ashland County, Wis.) 1881, Page 74 

Captain John J. Metzgar, farmer, Sec. 5, P.O. Butternut, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., Dec. 20, 1828. Until 1837 he remained there, and his parents moved to Mercer County where they settled on a farm. In 1839 they moved to Licking Co., Ohio, which place was his home till 1854, when he went to Fond du Lac, Wis., He moved to Waupaca County and built the first frame house in Manawa. In 1861 he enlisted in the 76^th Ohio V. I., Co. B. He began as a quartermaster sergeant; was promoted to second lieutenant Sept. 30, 1862; to first, March 12, 1864; to captain, Feb. 18, 1865, and served on the Staff of General C. R. Wood. He was mustered out in 1865, and entered mercantile life at Newark, Ohio. In 1870 he received the appointment of Assistant Assessor of Internal Revenue, for the Thirteenth Congressional District. In 1880, he came to Price County, and took a homestead in Fifield of 113 acres in Town 40, Range 2, west, where he lives. In 1855 he married Miss C. E. Prichard, of Granville, Ohio. They have six children – Anna, John, Caroline, Mary, Frances and Catherine.