Milton Trautmann, a long-time physician in Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin, was born in Lomira, Wisconsin in 1900. His father, John Trautmann, who emigrated from Germany in the 1860's, was a circuit-riding evangelical minister. His mother was also a German immigrant. The younger Trautmann received a B.S. degree from the University of Wisconsin in 1924 and a medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1926. After an internship in Milwaukee he entered practice in Brooklyn, New York with his brother Henry. In 1931 he married Esther Trachte; they became the parents of five children.
Trautmann left Brooklyn for Prairie du Sac in 1934 after the depression had ruined his once lucrative practice. In 1937 he attended Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health on a grant from the State Board of Health of Wisconsin. For several years thereafter he worked in the Board's Division of Communicable Diseases while maintaining his Prairie du Sac practice on a part-time basis. About 1946 Trautmann left the State Board of Health to resume a full-time medical practice in Prairie du Sac, which he continued until his death in September 1963.
