Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Boehl, August 1835 - 
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Author: Portraits & Bio Sketches, 1890

AUGUST BOEHL, as a farmer of large experience, great capability, sagacious and 
far-seeing, and prudent in the management of his affairs, is considered one of 
the most successful of the well-to-do agriculturists who are active in pushing 
forward the material interests of Will County in general, and of Monee 
Township in particular. Associating himself with the pioneers of this region, 
he has tilled the soil to some purpose during the three or more decades that 
he has lived here, as is shown by the fine appearance of his well-appointed 
and well-stocked farm, with its neat buildings and well-tilled fields. While 
doing a general farming business, Mr. Boehl has paid special attention to 
rearing horses the last seventeen years, and for six years has been a breeder 
of thorough-bred English Shire horses, and now has a fine herd, among them 
being some that are imported. August Boehl is of foreign birth, born in 
Prussia, Germany, August 13, 1835. His parents, Christian and Christina 
(Weigand) Boehl, were natives of the same place as himself. They had three 
children—Christina, Wilhelmena and August. While our subject was scarcely more 
than a babe, he had the misfortune to lose his good mother, who died in 1838. 
His father married again, Fredericka Cacker becoming his wife, by whom he had 
the following seven children: Louisa, Catherine, Christian, George, William, 
Henry and Frederick. The father was a manufacturer of cloth in his native 
country, but abandoned that business when he came to the United States in 
1857, accompanied by his family with the exception of the eldest daughter. He 
settled on forty acres of land on section 15, Monee Township, where his 
earthly pilgrimage came to an end in 1863, at the age of fifty-seven years. 
His wife survived him until 1885, when she too passed away. The subject of 
this biographical review passed the early years of his life in his native 
Germany, and there received a substantial education. He worked for his father 
in the old country, and after coming here spent his first six months at 
employment for which he was paid $12 a month. He subsequently began life on 
his own account, and in 1859 purchased eighty acres of the land where he now 
lives for $1,000. At different times he has added to this, first a tract of 
twenty acres, then one of eighty acres, and subsequently one of forty acres, 
paying 85 an acre for the timber land. This, by incessant toil, he now has 
well cultivated, and has all the necessary improvements and appointments to 
make it one of the best-equipped farms in the township. Mr. Boehl has not been 
unaided in his labors, but has had the cheerful co-operation of a capable 
wife, to whom he was married in the month of May, 1858. Nine children have 
been born to them, namely: Emma, deceased, who was the wife of Henry Dierchas; 
Edward, a resident of Minnesota; August, Arthur, Charles, George, Louis, Lilly 
and Mary. Our subject has always honored industry in word and deed, and hence 
he has done well in his life work. A man of roundabout common-sense, wise and 
careful in the management of his affairs, his fellow-citizens, appreciating 
these characteristics and his general trustworthiness, have called him to the 
responsible office of Supervisor, and he represented his township on the 
County Board for three terms, and has used his influence to promote the best 
interests of the public. In politics, he favors by voice and vote the 
Republican party, he having been a member of that organization since he cast 
his first ballot for Lincoln. He and his wife are among the most esteemed 
members of the United Presbyterian Church, and their every-day lives are 
guided by their religious principles.

Additional Comments:
Portrait and Biographical Album of Will County, Illinois, Containing Full Page 
Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens 
of the County; Chicago: Chapman Bros., 1890 
 


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