Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Vander Bogart, Frank Stowe 
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Author: Genealogical and Biographical Record of Will County 

FRANK STOWE VANDER BOGART, one of the most popular officials of the county, 
has made Joliet his home since November, 1889, and for some time served as 
deputy clerk under Henry R. Pohl. In 1892 the Republican convention nominated 
him by acclamation to the office of clerk of the circuit court, and he was 
elected by a majority of little less than four hundred. Four years later he 
was again nominated by acclamation and was elected by a majority of two 
thousand three hundred and eight, which was much the highest majority given  
any candidate of his ticket. His first term began in December, 1892, and the 
second will expire in December, 1900.

The family represented by our subject was founded in America by Dr. Hermine 
Myndert Vander Bogart, who came from Holland as ship surgeon of the 
sailer "Eendracht," in 1632, and settled in Manhattan Island. From him 
descended William Henry Vander Bogart, Sr., who was born in Jefferson County, 
N. Y., and about 1842 brought his family to Illinois, settling in Florence 
Township, Will County, where he was a pioneer farmer. He died at his homestead 
four miles south of Wilmington. His son, William Henry, Jr., was born in 
Jefferson County, N. Y., and was eight years of age when the family came west. 
A farmer and stock dealer, he also gave some attention to the meat business, 
having a market in Wilmington for many years. During the Civil war he  
enlisted in the Twentieth Illinois Infantry and served until he was taken ill 
and sent to the hospital at Cape Girardeau, Mo., where he was honorably  
discharged. His brothers, Walter  and James, enlisted in the Thirty-ninth 
Illinois Infantry, in which the latter served as a sharpshooter until the 
close of the war; Walter was killed during the early part of the war while 
acting as a picket upon Morris Island. He, like his brothers, served with 
fidelity to the Union and proved his loyalty to his country in the hour of 
need. He is now connected with the Grand Army of the Republic and fraternally 
is a Mason. At sixty-five years of age he is now living retired from business. 
His wife was Laura J. Stowe, daughter of Cyrus Stowe, who removed from Vermont 
to New York, thence to the vicinity of Niles, Mich., from there to St. Joe, 
the same state, and finally settled in Wilmington Township, this county, in an
early day.

In a family of six sons and three daughters, all still living, our subject was 
next to the oldest. He was born in Wilmington, this county, March 15, 1868, 
and was educated in the public high school of his home town. In 1886 he went to
Chicago, where he was employed as bookkeeper for John G. Miller & Co., 
wholesale clothiers. Later he went back to Wilmington and from there came to 
Joliet. In addition to his duties as circuit clerk he is treasurer and a  
stockholder and director of the Hercules Gold Mining Company, which owns three 
hundred and eighty-five acres of land two and one-half miles from Deadwood.
With his father-in-law, Wilbur L. Keeney, he bought the Naperville electric 
light plant soon after it had been established, and this they built up, he 
acting as president of the company and his father-in-law as secretary, 
treasurer and manager. In politics he has always been an ardent Republican, 
and takes an intense interest in the success of his party. Until the Joliet 
camp of Sons of Veterans disbanded he was one of its active members.

The marriage of Mr. Vander Bogart took place in Naperville, Ill., and united 
him with Miss Nellie M. Keeney, who was born in East Glastonbury, Conn., and 
in 1874 came to Wilmington, Ill., with her parents, who in 1892 removed to 
Naperville, and now reside in Joliet. To their union one child has been born, 
a daughter, Ruth Helen.

Additional Comments:
Genealogical and Biographical Record of Will County Illinois Containing 
Biographies of Well Known Citizens of the Past and Present, Biographical 
Publishing Company, Chicago, 1900

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