Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Boicken, Henry F 
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Author: Past & Present Will County, 1907

HENRY F. BOICKEN. The agricultural interests of Will county find a worthy 
representative in Henry F. Boicken, who is engaged in farming on forty acres 
of land, situated on section 24, Will township, and he also owns eighty acres 
in Washington township. Mr. Boicken is a native son of this county, his birth 
having occurred on a farm in Monee township in 1870. His father, Charles 
Boicken, was born in Germany, whence he came to the United States with his 
parents when a little lad of four years, the family home being established in 
Monee township. The father was a blacksmith by trade and both he and his wife 
are now deceased. Charles B. Boicken was engaged in farming in Monee township 
for a number of years, after which he removed to Will township, settling on a 
farm on section 25. He prospered in his undertakings and acquired a competence 
that in 1899 enabled him to retire, and he now makes his home in Beecher, at 
the age of fifty-nine years. He enlisted for service in the Civil war, joining 
a company in Monee. He is a republican in politics and has taken an active 
part in public affairs, having for four years served as supervisor of Will 
township, while for many years he served as road commissioner, school trustee 
and school director. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Dorothea Matthias, 
was likewise born in Germany, and is now living at the age of sixty-one years. 
Their family numbers five children: Henry P., of this review; Emma, who is now 
the wife of Robert Salzmann, of Washington township; William, who resides upon 
the old homestead in Will township; Mary, the wife of Edward Langreder, a 
blacksmith of Beecher; and Dorothea, the wife of August Wiechem, a resident of 
Peotone. The parents are devoted members of the German Lutheran church. Henry 
P. Boicken, the eldest child of his father's family, was reared to the 
occupation of farming and during the period of his boyhood and youth he 
pursued his studies in the district schools and the German school. He remained 
under the parental roof until the time of his marriage, when he started out 
upon his own account, having always followed the occupation with which he 
became familiar as a boy. He is now farming on a tract of forty acres, located 
on section 24. Will township, and he also owns eighty acres of land in 
Washington township. He is practical and progressive in his methods of farm 
labor and is meeting with a gratifying measure of success, each year adding 
materially to his financial resources. On the 28th of October, 1894, occurred 
the marriage of Mr. Boicken and Miss Louisa Wiechem, who was born in Will 
township, in 1872, a daughter of Henry and Sophia (Engelke) Wiechem. The 
parents came from Hanover, Germany, to Illinois in 1853, and for a few years 
resided near Chicago, whence they came to Will township, Will county, where 
they are still living, in the enjoyment of the fruits of their former toil. 
They are members of the German Lutheran church. Their family numbered eleven 
children: William, who is now residing on a farm of his own near Peotone; 
Henry, a resident of Peotone; Ernest, now farming his land, is in Will 
township; Fred, also a farmer in Will township; Dick, a resident of Beecher, 
where he is in the lumber business; Charles, who died at the age of twenty-six 
years; Louisa, who is the only daughter living; August, who now is a resident 
of Peotone; Frank, who died at the age of four years; Emma, who died in 
infancy; and Albert, the youngest, who died at the age of fifteen years. Unto 
Mr. and Mrs. Boicken have been born four children: Alma, Malinda, Albert and 
Martha. The parents are members of the German Lutheran church, and Mr. Boicken 
gives his political support to the men and measures of the republican party. 
Both he and his wife are highly esteemed in the community where they reside, 
representing old and prominent families of Will county.

Additional Comments:
PAST AND PRESENT OF WILL COUNTY, ILLINOIS By W. W. Stevens President of the 
Will County Pioneers Association; Chicago: The S. J. Clarke Publishing 
Company, 1907

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