Bollmeier, Frederick

BOLLMEIER

Posted By: Joyce Hickman (email)
Date: 12/2/2007 at 21:59:17

Frederick Bollmeier

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.108, Hardin Twp.)
Frederick Bollmeier, farmer, P. O. Council Bluffs, was born in Prussia in 1850. Is the son of Frederick W. and Charlotte (Mahler) Bollmeier, who were farmers, and lived and died in Germany, his mother dying in 1861, and father in 1880. Mr. Bollmeier has one brother and two sisters, one sisters being in Pennsylvania, while the others remain in the old country. He was educated in his native country, and worked at different employments till he came to America in 1868; then worked three years in the rolling-mills in Pittsburgh, Penn. In 1871, he came to Cedar County, Iowa, and worked on a farm for some time, and then to Mills County, farming there for over a year, then to Pottawattamie County in 1873; worked on a farm by the month. In 1875, he bought a farm of eighty acres, and moved onto the same place in 1876, and added to his farm till now he has 140 acres. Mr. Bollmeier does not take much interest in political affairs; has never voted for President but once, but then voted the Democratic ticket. In 1871, he was married to Miss Caroline Luker, who came from near his old home in 1868. Her parents are living in this country; also she has two brothers and one sister living in America. They have two boys and one daughter. Mr. Bollmeier and wife were brought up in the Lutheran Church, and are members of the same church now. When they came to their farm in 1876, it was open prairie, but now the whole farm is under cultivaion and considerable improvements have been made. Mr. Bollmeier is doing general farming, and has made all he has by his own industry.