Nicholas Boor 1845-1897

BOOR, STREIT, STROUT, HUBBARD, OSWEILER

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Date: 3/5/2007 at 20:23:15

Biographies from the 1914 "Past and Present of O'Brien and Osceola Counties of Iowa"

NICHOLAS BOOR.

In this memoir of the life of the late Nicholas Boor, who is now numbered with the honored dead, those who knew him best cannot help but recall his numerous kindly acts, his charitable and public-spirited deeds. Coming to Osceola county in its early history, he became one of the worthy and honored men of the county and filled a large place in the life of the community in which he lived for so many years. For this reason it seems eminently fitting that this tribute be here recorded that coming generations may know the worth of such a man.

Nicholas Boor was born in August, 1845, in Prussia and died in Ashton, Osceola county, Iowa, February 5, 1897. He came to this country with his parents when he was twelve years of age and settled in Kenosha county. Wisconsin. In 1871 he, together with two of his friends, John Streit and William Schultz, came to Osceola county, Iowa, and homesteaded in section 4, Gilman township. After building a small house on this tract, Mr. Boor returned to Wisconsin, where he was married to Eva Streit, and in the spring of 1873 he came with his young wife to Osceola county, where they lived until his death. He resided on the farm which he homesteaded until 1881, when the family moved to Ashton, where Mr. Boor engaged in the lumber and grain business until his death. He was highly successful as a business man and was widely respected by everyone who had any dealings with him. He took an active interest in public affairs and served nine years as supervisor of Osceola county. He always took an active part in the Republican party, and was considered one of its leaders in the county. He was a firm believer in the possibilities of land in Osceola county and invested heavily during his business career in Ashton. At the time of his death he was the owner of twelve hundred acres of land in the county. His widow still owns four farms, aggregating seven hundred acres, besides the finest modern home in Ashton.

Nicholas Boor was married in 1872 to Eva Streit, who was born in Prussia on June 13, 1853. Her parents, Michael and Helena (Strout) Streit, left their native land and settled in Kenosha county, Wisconsin, in 3857. They came to Osceola county, Iowa, in the fall of 1873, the same year in which the Boor family permanently settled in the county. Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Boor were the parents of ten children: Reinold J., Mathias J., Katherine E., Helena M., John L. (deceased February 14, 1907). Charles S., Frederick T., Anna V., Anthony L. and Francis M. Reinold J. is married and has five children, Martin, Hilda, Vincent, Marie and Bertha, and resides at Ashton, this county; Mathias J. also lives in Ashton, and he and his wife had two sons, Donald and Mark, the mother dying September 2, 1903; Katherine E. married a Mr. Hubbard, of Rock Rapids, Iowa, and has five children, Eva, Helen, Marcella, Jack and Alice: Helena M. married Mr. Osweiler, of Lewistown, Montana, and has two children living, Paul and Helen; Charles S. Boor is living in Lewistown, Montana, while the other children are still living with their mother in Ashton.

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