BOGARDUS, E. R. [Edward R.]

BOGARDUS, BAGLEY, VERMILYA, RANDALL

Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 11/18/2014 at 12:58:23

The Globe Gazette
Mason City, Cerro Gordo County, Iowa
Monday, June 01, 1953
Mason City Centennial Edition, Section 3

BOGARDUS AMONG EARLY CONTRACTORS

[Section 3, Page 15] E[dward]. R. Bogardus, father of Mrs. Willis G. C. Bagley, arrived in Cerro Gordo in October, 1859, with his uncle, George Vermilya, who settled on a farm south of Rock Falls. They had traveled several days by wagon from McGregor, following a faint trail and dodging swamps and thickets.

Bogardus at that time was 9 years of age. He and his mother had come from Cook County, Ill. where his father had died in 1851.

After making his home with the Vermilya family for several years, Bogardus in 1868 started farming. He later became a clerk in a lumber yard and gradually became identified with the contracting and building business, erecting a number of buildings in Mason City [Cherry/Rattay House, Decker House, Klipton Building, Calvary Methodist Episcopal Church, etc.]. In 1883 he entered the lumber business.

In 1871 he was married to Miss Mary Randall, daughter of Elisha Randall.

NOTE: E. R. was born October 22, 1850, and died May 22, 1927. Mary (Randall) Bogardus was born May 9, 1855, and died January 8, 1912. E. R.'s mother, Maria E. Bogardus, was born February 14, 1820, and died January 18, 1882. They were interred at Elmwood-St. Joseph Cemetery, Mason City.

E. R. Bogardus photograph courtesy of Globe-Gazette unless otherwise noted

Transcription and Note by Sharon R. Becker, November of 2014

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