Polk County IA Archives Biographies.....Bohen, Frederick O. 1895 - 
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Author: A Narrative History of The People of Iowa

A Narrative History
of
The People of Iowa

FREDERICK O. BOHEN, president and general manager of the Meredith
Publishing Company at Des Moines, is a comparatively young man, but with a
veteran's experience in the newspaper field, particularly in advertising work.

He was born at Waseca, Minnesota, May 25, 1895, son of Thomas and Amelia
(McLaughlin) Bohen. His father was born in Rome, New York, of Irish parentage,
while his mother was born in Minnesota. Thomas Bohen gave the active years
of his career to the insurance and real estate business at Minneapolis, and
about twenty years ago he organized a hail insurance company at Cherokee,
Iowa. He and his wife were members of the Catholic Church, and he was a
Democrat in politics. All of their eight children are living, Frederick O. being
the youngest.

Frederick O. Bohen attended high school at Minneapolis and later was a
student in New York University. When he was about twelve or thirteen years of age
he and his brother Mark were associated in the operation of a small
newspaper at Trempeleau, Wisconsin. From the rural weekly type of newspaper he
progress to metropolitan journalism and for about eight years represented a group
of newspapers, including the Minneapolis Journal, in handling special
syndicated advertising.

Mr. Bohen first became identified with the Meredith Publications as Chicago
representative during 1921-22. In the latter year he was called to the head
office at Des Moines and became advertising director of the Meredith
Publications. On the death of E. T. Meredith on June 15, 1928, he was appointed
general manager of the Meredith Publishing Company. He is also president of the
AGricultural Publishers Association; a director of the North West Bank
Corporation; director of the Iowa Des Moines National Bank; member of the Des
Moines Rotary Club; Des Moines Chamber of Commerce; director of Greater Des Moines
Committee; and a trustee of Drake University.

Mr. Bohen married in November, 1919, Miss Mildred Meredith, a daughter of
the late E. T. Meredith, founder and head of the Meredith Publications and one
of Iowa's great men of the modern era. Mrs. Bohen was educated in the Des
Moines High School and attended the Ely Girls School at Greenwich, Connecticut.
They have one daughter, Barbara, born in March, 1923. Mrs. Bohen is a
member of the Junior League. Mr. Bohen is a Democrat, a member of the Des Moines
Club, the Wakonda Club and Hermit Club.



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