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Title:  History of Henry and Fulton Counties, Ohio   
Authors:  Aldrich, Lewis Cass.   
City of Publication:  Syracuse, N.Y. :   
Publisher:  D. Mason & Co.,   
Publication Date:  1888 

Transcribed by Linda Talbott

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BOCKELMAN, Lewis; Freedom, Napoleon p.o., was born in Hanover, Germany,
in 1831, and was a son of Henry and Catharine Bockelman, who had a 
family of eight children, six of whom emigrated to America: they were
Lewis, Mary, Fred, Frederick, Henry and August.  August enlisted and
died at the Fairfax Court-House.  Catharine and William remained in
Germany.  Lewis emigrated to America in 1860, and settled in Adams,
Defiance county, O.  He enlisted in August, 1862, in Co. K, 107th
Ohio Regiment, under Colonel Meyers, and served to the close of the
war, after which he was discharged at Cleveland.  He returned to Adams,
and became engaged in the carpenter and builder trade.  He was married
in 1867 to Anna Eggers, who was born in 1849.  She was a daughter of
John H. and Mary (Shuette) Eggers.  They have had a family of eight
children, four of whom are now living: Emma, Anna, Mary and Charles.
He purchased his first farm in 1866, and in 1876 came to Napoleon to
reside, where he became engaged in the merchantile business.  In 1880
he purchased and removed to his present fine farm of 120 acres, all of
which he has improved, and on which he has erected some model farm
buildings.  He has been trustee for four terms, and is secretary of the
Farmers Insurance Company, which became a fully reliable institution
under his able management.

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