Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2025 All Rights Reserved USGenNet Data Repository Please read USGenNet Copyright Statement on this page: Transcribed and submitted by Linda Talbott for the USGenNet Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ =========================================================================== Formatted by USGenNet Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded. =========================================================================== History of Northern Wisconsin pub: The Western Historical Company, Chicago, 1881 [page 162] CHARLES A. BOEHME, merchant, Alma, was born in Muegeln, Sacony, Germany, May 27, 1823. In September, 1851, he landed in New York City, and his first location was in Buffalo, N. Y., and was engaged in tailoring. Two years later he removed to Terre Haute, Ind., and was engaged in the same business until 1859, when he removed to Buf- falo County and settled in Buffalo City. Was engaged in merchandising and also owner of a saw-mill. He afterwards removed to this place. In 1862, he married ELEANOR KEMPTER, a native of Germany. They have eight children - FLORA, CHARLES, EMMA, GEORGE, ADOLPH, JULIA, ROBERT and ALMA. Mr. B. has also been Postmaster in this village eight years. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- History of Buffalo & Pepin Counties, Wisconsin - Vol. 1 pub. H. C. Cooper, Jr. & Co., Winona, MN - 1919 [page 180] CHARLES ADOLPH BOEHME, a pioneer of Buffalo county, now deceased, was born in Saxony, Germany, May 27, 1823, and was there reared to manhood. In 1849 he was obliged to leave his native land on account of having taken some part in the revolutionary agitation there, and went to France, where he attended night school and also learned the trade of ladies' tailor. From there, seeking to better his fortunes in a land of less competition and wider opportunities, he came to the United States and for a short time carried on a gentlemen's tailoring establishment at Terre Haute, Ind. The tide of emigration to the Northwest, which set in in the middle fifties, caught him in its current and cast him on the shore at Buffalo City, Buffalo county, Wisconsin. Here he at once identified himself with the pioneer life of the place, and regarding the location as a favo- rable one for home building, took as wife ELENORA KEMPTER, who was of his own nationality, having been born in Germany Feb. 21, 1841, daughter of FRANZ J and ANNA W. KEMPTER. Her father, born March 19, 1802, died in 1854; her mother, born July 27, 1803, died Oct. 3, 1893. MR. BOEHME added to the industrial enterprises of Buffalo City by building a sawmill, and then coming to Alma he erected here the first store building, on the site of the present brewery; and for some time he used to walk from Buffalo City to Alma and back every day. After a year or so he moved to Alma, erecting a brick building on a site next to the present business place of his son ROBERT, it being 20 by 40 feet in size. A little later he put up the building now occupied by the same son as a machine and auto repair shop. He also became agent here for the Diamond Joe Steamer Company, a posi- tion that he held for a number of years. Though he never cared for public office, during the Civil War period, or a part of it, he served as postmaster of Alma. MR. BOEHME was an ardent Mason, being a charter member of Alma lodge, and for eighteen years its treasurer, being re-elected to that office while on his death bed. He also be- longed to the Odd Fellows' lodge at Wabasha, Minn. His wife survived him over fourteen years, passing away Oct. 2, 1904. They were the parents of ten children: FLORA, born Aug. 23, 1863; CHARLES ADOLPH, JR., born Nov. 14, 1864; EMMA, born Feb. 17, 1866; GEORGE W., born May 10, 1867, who died July 19, 1888; ADOLPH C., born Feb. 9, 1869, who met death by drowning, July 18, 1882; JULIA, born Jan. 30, 1871, who is now the wife of HENRY VOEGELI, of Minneapolis; HENRY, born Jan. 1, 1873, who died May 10, 1874; ROBERT A., born April 27, 1878; ALMA E., born April 16, 1880; and IONA M., born Feb. 16, 1884. ===========================================================================