Myer Katz was born in 1910, in La Crosse, Wisconsin. He was educated at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and at George Washington University in Washington D.C. Further graduate studies were pursued at the University of Minnesota, University of Chicago, and American University. Katz worked as an educator and research biologist before joining the family business, W. U. Katz, an industrial metals firm located in La Crosse.
A longtime student of La Crosse history, Katz did a great deal of lecturing and writing on the subject, including writing regular features on local history for the La Crosse Tribune. In 1985, he published
Echoes of Our Past , which contains a selection of the articles he wrote on local history. One of Katz’s interests was Jewish history and La Crosse’s Jewish community. Katz died in 1993 in La Crosse, Wisconsin.
