Mr. Mittag was educated in the public schools of his native State, and at the age of sixteen engaged in the stationery business in New York City, in which he continued with success for ten years. He then engaged in the manufacture of typewriter supplies, and is now the head of the firm of Mittag & Volger, one of the largest concerns of the class in the country.

In public as well as in business life Mr. Mittag has become well known. He was a member and Corporal of Company A, Thirteenth Regiment, National Guard of New York, and is also a Justice of the Peace at Park Ridge, where ho resides. He attends the Protestant Episcopal Church and is actively identified with the affairs of his town. His uncle, Henry C. Wagner, was a near relative of Wagner, the famous composer and musician.