Lake County IN Archives Biographies.....Bohling, John G. 1855 - 
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Author: T. H. Ball (1904)

JOHN G. BOHLING.

    John G. Bohling, a prominent farmer of St. John township, has resided in
this part of Lake county all his life and carries on his extensive agricultural
operations on the same farm on which he was born, and which his father settled
in the early days of the county's existence. He has always been known among his
neighbors and fellow-citizens as a man of ability and energy and progressive
spirit, and he has so managed his affairs as to gain a substantial place in the
world and surround himself with comfortable circumstances.

    Mr. Bohling was born in St. John township, Lake county, October 11, 1855, a
grandson of Andrew and a son of John Bohling, both well known men in the early
settlement of Lake county. His father was born in Germany, November 26, 1823,
and was reared there to the age of fifteen, when he was brought by his father to
America. They lived in Joliet, Illinois, for two years, and in 1841 came to Lake
county, Indiana. Here John Bohling married, in 1843, Anna Mary Shillo, who was
also born in Germany and came to America in 1842. She died at the age of seventy
years After their marriage they located on a tract of unimproved land in St.
John township, and he gave his attention to its improvement and cultivation for
many years, and still resides on it, with his son John. He is now past eighty
years of age, and is revered as one of the sterling pioneers of Lake county. Of
his seven children only four are now living, as follows: Magdalen, wife of Bart
Schaefer, of Center township, Lake county; Susanna, wife of Nick Maginot, of St.
John township; Joseph P., of Hammond; and John G.

    Mr. Bohling, the youngest of the family, was reared on the farm where he
still lives, and received his early education in the schools of St. John
township. On his fine farm of one hundred and sixty acres he raises general
crops and stock, and has been able to extract more than a good living from his
fertile soil, so that he ranks among the progressive and representative farmers
of the township. In national affairs he has always given his allegiance to the
Democratic party, but votes for the man in local affairs. He and his family are
members of the Catholic church in St. John, the patron saint St. John's.

    April 27, 1880, Mr. Bohling married Miss Lillosa Schmal, who was born in the
village of St. John, Lake county, February 4, 1857, and is a daughter of Adam
Schmal. Five children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Bohling: Clara, the wife of
Frank A. Beiker, of Crown Point; William, at home; Eleanor; Norbert; and Joseph
A., deceased.


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ENCYCLOPEDIA
OF
Genealogy and Biography
OF
LAKE COUNTY, INDIANA,
WITH A COMPENDIUM OF HISTORY 
1834—1904

A Record of the Achievements of Its People in the Making of a Commonwealth and
the Founding of a Nation.

REV. T. H. BALL
OF CROWN POINT, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
ILLUSTRATED
CHICAGO   NEW YORK
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1904


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