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

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Wheat Brom.  In 1868 a farmer of the dorf or village of Todne, near the city 
of Budweis, in the county of Swegnie, Bohemia, Wheat Brom, the father of 
Mathias and "Big Wenzel" Brom, sold his lands of nearly 100 acres there and 
with his wife and family, married son Frank; unmarried son John and unmarried 
daughter Mary, immigrated to America, leaving Bohemia July 21, 1868, and 
arriving at Bremen Haven took passage to New York, where they arrived Aug. 7 
and immediately left for Winona, Minn., where they arrived Aug. 15, 1868.  
Wheat Brom settled in Pine Creek, in Trempealeau County, purchasing of John 
Pehler the farm later owned by Joe Eichman, on which farm Wheat Brom died, 
and is buried in the cemetery at Pine Creek.  Mrs. Brom survived her husband 
and for many years made her home with her son, Frank Brom, and where she died.  
At the end of the first year in the cooley Mr. Brom had about five acres of 
lands under cultivation, but continued to make improvements from year to year, 
as did his neighbors, until many excellent farms are in the cooley.  John 
Brom, the youngest son of Wheat Brom, married in Winona, and later than 1868 
homesteaded lands in the cooley, which he sold in 1881 and went to Kansas, 
where he still resides.  Big Wenzel sold his farm in the cooley and moved to 
Kansas in 1885, where he died a few years ago.  Frank Brom purchased the farm 
of Little Wenzel in 1904, Wenzel removing to Winona, Minn., where he died in 
1908.

- Transcribed from the "History of Trempealeau County Wisconsin, 1917," 
pages 777 & 778


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