Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Bohl, Henry 1838 - 
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Author: Portraits & Bio Sketches, 1890

HENRY BOHL owns and occupies a farm on section 34, Washington Township. A 
general air of thrift and prosperity is noticeable and even a casual glance is 
sufficient to show that tjie land is well tilled and that the buildings which 
have been erected upon it are adequate to their requirements, while they and 
the other improvements are well kept in every particular. The eyes of our 
subject opened to the light in Mecklenburg, Germany, April 14, 1838. His 
father, Herman Bohl, was a farm laborer who had married a lady of his own 
Duchy—Miss Mary Buhrhng. They lived in the neighborhood in which they had been 
reared until after the birth of six children, two of whom died when quite 
young. The parents with the surviving members of the family set out for 
America in the fall of 1857, taking passage from Hamburg in the sailing 
vessel "America" and landing at New York City after having spent four weeks 
and three days at sea. The family came west together and made a settlement in 
Du Page County, Ill. After some years the parents, their only son and one 
daughter, removed to Will County and settled on the farm now owned by our 
subject, the parents living with him until their death. The father breathed 
his last in 1883 at the age of seventy-seven years; the widow survived until 
1889, reaching the advanced age of eighty-two years. During the last two years 
of her life she was entirely blind. Both of the parents were life-long members 
of the Lutheran Church. Henry Bohl is the third in order of birth in the 
parental family. He received his education in his native country to which he 
bade adieu when about nineteen years old. He became of age in Du Page County, 
Ill., and was there united in marriage with Miss Minnie Schuld. This lady was 
born in Mecklenberg, Germany, in 1846, and after being left an orphan she came 
alone to the United States when she had almost reached womanhood. She made her 
home in Du Page County where she was married not long after her arrival. She 
was well skilled in domestic arts, was a consistent member of the Lutheran 
Church and a woman whose good qualities were recognized by her neighbors and 
acquaintances. She breathed her last at her home in Washington Township, 
August 25, 1883, when but thirty-eight years old. The happy union of Mr. and 
Mrs. Bohl was blest by the birth of eight children, of whom Willie, Lena and 
two infants are deceased. The survivors are: Recka, Henry, William and John, 
all of whom yet cluster around their father's fireside. Mr. Bohl and his 
children attend the Lutheran Church and he is a stanch Republican. 

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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