Faulk County, SD Biographies.....Boller, Andrew 1856 - 
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Author: C. H. Ellis



    ANDREW BOLLER. Everywhere in our land are found men who have worked their

own way from humble beginnings to leadership in commerce, the great productive

industries, the management of financial affairs, and in controlling the veins

and arteries of traffic and exchanges of the country. It is one of the glories

of our nation that it is so, and it should be the strongest incentive and

encouragement to the youth of the country. Prominent among the self-made men of

Faulkton is the subject of this sketch, a well known undertaker and furniture

dealer.



    He was born in the town of Hohenthengen, Baden, Germany, November 28, 1856,

and on both sides is descended from highly respected old German families. His

father, Andreas Boiler, was a farmer and cattle dealer by occupation. Our

subject, who is the fourth in order of birth in a family of six children,

attended the schools of his native town until twelve years of age, and completed

his education by a four years course in a high school in Switzerland. At the age

of sixteen he entered a store to learn the mercantile business, for which

privilege he had to pay two hundred dollars, and the only compensation he

received during his three years' apprenticeship was his board. For five years

thereafter he engaged in clerking in his native land, and in the fall of 1880

sailed for America. On landing in New York he proceeded at once to Iowa, but not

finding employment during the month spent in that state, he came to Yankton,

South Dakota, in December, 18SO, though he had to pawn his watch to get the

money to bring him here. Pie made his home in that city for four years, working

in a soda water factory most of the time, and in a furniture store for nine month.



    In 1884, Mr. Boller married Miss Carrie Klimisch, who was born in Germany

but was reared in this country. Her father, Anthony Klimisch, was a farmer in

Yankton county. The children to our subject and his wife are Fred, now

twenty-four years of age; Andy, Carrie, May, Bertha, and Adelaide.



    Soon after his marriage in 1884, Mr. Boller went to Highmore, South Dakota,

where for a year and a half he conducted the National Hotel. At the end of that

time he returned to Yankton, where he remained during the winter of 1885-6, and

the following spring went to Redfield to take charge of a hotel, to which he

gave the name of National. After six months spent at that place he came to

Faulkton in the fall of 1886 and established a furniture store in a building

24x40 feet. He has had to enlarge his stock to meet the demands of his growing

trade and has also added to his building, making it 46x60 feet, and has many

modern improments in his store, including a Kimball elevator. When he makes the

contemplated repairs, he will have the largest and finest store in the town. He

does, purely a furniture and undertaking business and receives a. liberal share

of the public patronage. Besides his business, property he owns one of the best

residences in Faulkton: and a half section of land in the eastern part of the

county for which he has refused forty dollars an acre.



    Mr. Boller is an ardent republican in politics, and has taken part in

municipal and county affairs, serving as mayor one term and as alderman for

eighteen years with credit to himself and to the entire satisfaction of his

constituents. Socially, he is a member of the Knights of Pythias, the Ancient

Order of United Workmen and the Modern Woodmen of America.





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HISTORY OF

FAULK COUNTY

SOUTH DAKOTA

CAPTAIN C. H. ELLIS



TOGETHER WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF PIONEERS AND PROMINENT CITIZENS



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