“The History of Jefferson County, Wisconsin”, published: Chicago:  
Western Historical Company.   1879.


CHRISTIAN MAY, cooper, also member of the firm of F. Miller & Co., 
proprietors flouring-mills; was born in the south part of Germany, on the 
river Rhine, Aug. 28, 1824.  In 1846, he emigrated to America and 
located in Buffalo, N.Y., where he remained a little over a year, and 
moved to Michigan, staying there, however, but a short time.  He passed 
two years between Milwaukee and Chicago, the winters being passed in 
the latter city, working at his trade of cooper, when he made his 
residence in Watertown, where he began business in the summer of 
1849.  During Mr. May’s residence in Watertown, he has been identified 
with all that contributed to the welfare and prosperity of his adopted 
residence, and the citizens have, on several occasions, testified their 
appreciation of his efforts by his election to city offices.  Nov. 28, 1852, 
he married Lena Kloger, a native of Germany, but raised in 
Massachusetts, whence she was brought with her parents when 4 years 
of age.  They have two sons – Gustavus, born Dec. 22, 1853, and 
Edward, Dec. 28, 1856, who are engaged in looking after the varied 
interests of their father.


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