Biographies: Ferdinand BOERNKE, Fall Creek, Eau Claire Co., WI 

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Ferdinand Boernke was born in 1830, in Pommern, Germany; came to America 
in 1855 and to Eau Claire county in 1881, and settled near Fall Creek on 
a farm where he has lived since.  He married Miss Albertine Profahl, who 
was born in Germany in 1826.  They had six children, three of them still 
live in Eau Claire county:  Julius, Herman and Mathilde, the latter being 
now  Mrs. Rohrer.  Mr. Ferdinand Boernke died ???? and Mrs. Boernke died 
in ????.

--Taken from "The History of Eau Claire County, 1914, Past & Present",
page 570.