BIOGRAPHIES:   Frank BROM, Holcomb Cooley, Trempealeau Co., WI

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Frank Brom came to America with other members of his family, reaching Winona, 
Minn., Aug. 15, 1868.  The following day Frank Brom and his wife, whom he 
married in the old Bohemian home early in July, started on foot to Pine Creek 
under the guidance of Mathias Brom, Jr., a son of Mathias Brom, to the home of 
his father, where they arrived and partook of dinner, and then on foot crossed 
the hills into the Tamarack Valley, which they crossed and journed to the home 
of the brother, "Big Wenzel," where they made their home during the remainder 
of the summer, thus their settlement in Holcomb Cooley dates from the 16th day 
of August, 1868.  Frank Brom was born Oct. 27, 1841, at No. 14, Todne, Bohemia, 
grew to manhood there and married Eliza Tasick, who immigrated with him as a 
member of the family of Wheat Brom.  Frank Brom and his wife lived with Wenzel, 
who in the course of a month aided him in making a homestead claim on 160 acres 
of lands on section 26, township 20 north, range 9 west, upon which he made 
final proof and cultivated.  Mr. Brom purchased other lands from time to time 
until he owned a few years ago 784 acres in the cooley.  When Frank Brom and 
his wife reached Holcomb Cooley they had $3 in money, no team and a scant amount 
of clothing.  They were not daunted, nor often weary and discouraged, but worked 
and saved and reared a family of five daughters and four sons, so that at the 
time his wife died, Oct. 30, 1903, they had a comfortable home, a valuable farm 
with barns and outbuildings.  Their first house was a rough unbarked log house 
with a single room, made from the forest about them.  For many years Frank Brom 
has enjoyed good health and prosperity, and has always been respected by his 
neighbors and acquaintances as a man of great industry and thrift, of integrity 
and fine neighborly qualities, and he is in good health at 76 years, weighing 
220 pounds and standing 6 feet 2 inches in his stocking feet.  Mr. Brom has been 
and is a man of good habits, a kind father and was a good husband, thoroughly 
American in his notions.  He and his wife had a family of 10 children:  Kathrine, 
now Mrs. John Kruger, residing in Winona County, Minn.; Thomas, who resides in 
Arcadia Village; John, who also lives in Arcadia; Martin, the subject of this 
sketch; Elizabeth; Estella, who is now Mrs. August Tonditzke, of Holcomb Cooley; 
Rose, the wife of Michael Herrick, of Arcadia; Mary; and Frank, now deceased.

- Transcribed from the "History of Trempealeau County Wisconsin, 1917," 
pages 778 & 779


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