William C. Meffert (December 23, 1842 – March 21, 1918) was a German American immigrant, leatherworker, politician, and Wisconsin pioneer.
William C. Meffert was born on December 23, 1842, in the town of Bad Ems, in what was then the Rhine Province in the Kingdom of Prussia.
[2] The remainder of the family moved to Dodgeville, Wisconsin, in Iowa County, where William apprenticed as a leatherworker and saddlemaker.
At the outbreak of the American Civil War, he volunteered for service in the Union Army and was enrolled as a private in Company H of the 3rd Wisconsin Infantry Regiment.
[4] Meffert also maintained an extensive diary through his war service, which was donated to the Wisconsin Historical Society after his death.