BIOGRAPHIES:   Mathias BROM, Pine Creek, Trempealeau Co., WI

************************************************************************
USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE:  These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in
any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or
persons.  Persons or organizations desiring to use this material,
must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal
representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb
archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission
to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access.

Submitted by:  Nance Sampson, Trempealeau Co. WIGenWeb CC on 26 October 2003
************************************************************************

**Posted for informational purposes only - poster is not related to the 
subject of this biography and has no further information.

Mathias Brom, for many years a resident of Pine Creek, in Dodge Township, was 
born in September, 1828, in the village of Todne, near the city of Budweis, in 
Swegnie, Bohemia, his father, Wheat Brom, being a farmer in that locality.  
Mat Brom was the oldest child of his father's family, and was married in his 
native village to Elizabeth Marisech prior to his immigrating to America in 
1861.  His brother, Wenzel Brom,  known as "Big Wenzel," and a cousin, Wenzel 
Brom, known as "Little Wenzel," immigrated with him.  They landed in New York 
and immediately journeyed to Winona, Minn., where they had Bohemian 
acquaintances.  Mat Brom settled in Winona and for nearly two years worked in 
a grain warehouse.  In the latter part of 1862 he purchased 80 acres of land 
from the United States Government at $1.25 an acre, and moved onto these lands 
in 1863, improving and cultivating them.  In 1869 he deeded these lands to his 
son, Frank Brom, and purchased 120 acres in section 11, town 19, range 10 west, 
from John Shonat, who had for several years resided upon them and who upon a 
sale of them removed to Decorah Prairie, where he long was a prominent and 
prosperous citizen.  This 120 acres, with additions, constituted the Mat Brom 
farm at Pine Creek.  Mr. and Mrs. Brom retired from farming and for years lived 
quietly in a small home on a tract of land near the Pine Creek church.  They 
reared a family of two daughters - Eva and Mary - both of whom married, Eva 
dying some years ago and three sons - Frank, Martin and John.

- Transcribed from the "History of Trempealeau County Wisconsin, 1917," 
page 778


© All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm