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Bogumill, Joseph S. (History - 1866) |
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BOGUMILL YATZKO SWITALSKI HERMAN YOUNKINS DZIKOWISKI HULLS MENSKI GILLETT PITMAN |
----Source: 1918 History of Clark County, Wisconsin
JOSEPH S. BOGUMILL, one of the leading citizens of the
village of Thorp, a man of enterprise and many financial interests,
is perhaps best known at present as proprietor of the Farmers'
Store. He was born in the province of Pozen, Poland, in February,
1866, son of Kazmier and Margaret Bogumill, and one of a family of
whom four members are now living, the survivors being two brothers
and a sister, namely: Andrew, a farmer of Withee Township, this
county Agnes, now Mrs. Michael Yatzko, residing in Pennsylvania,
and Valentine, who resides in the state of Washington. The mother,
Mrs. Margaret Bogumill, died when her son Joseph was 15 years of
age, and soon after, in 1881, her husband came to the United
States, locating in Pennsylvania, where he died in 1888. Joseph S.
Bogumill acquired a public school education in his native Poland.
Coming to this country in 1883, he located in Pennsylvania, where
he took up mining and engaged in that industry until 1892, when he
came to Clark County, Wis. Soon after his arrival here he bought
forty acres of land in Section 13, Thorp Township, on which some of
the timber had been chopped. It was a small shanty on the place, in
which Mr. Bogumill took up his residence with his family. He worked
hard clearing his land and by 1897 found himself in a position to
buy forty acres rnore. About that time he built a frame house and a
good set of out-buildings, including a barn, 24 by 58 feet in size,
of hewed timber. There he followed general farming for thirteen
years. At the end of that time he sold his farm and moved to
Lombard in Withee Township, where he bought a general store and
also an eighty-acre farm previously owned by Frank Switalski. Then
for six years he conducted the store and also operated the farm
with profitable results. Selling out his interests there, he bought
the Joe Sterling farm of acres, in the village of Thorp, an
improved place on which he lived for four years. While on that
farm, he bought a store and property in the village of Thorp and
engaged in the general mercantile business, he and his wife
attending to the store before his sons became partners in the
business, which is now carried on under the firm name of Joseph
Bogumill Sons. His farm he exchanged for his present comfortable
residence.
Mr. Bogumill has the reputation of being one of the most
progressive and successful men in his community, his business being
varied and numerous. He was one of the organizers of the Thorp
Dairy Company, serving as its secretary for four years, and being
now one of its stockholders. He is also a stockholder and director
of the Farmers State Bank of Thorp, and a stockholder in the River
Head Dairy Company of Taylor County, Wis., and in the Gillett
Rubber Tire Company of Eau Claire, Wis. As a man deeply interested
in the welfare of the community in which he lives, Mr. Bogumill has
for a long time taken an active part in public affairs, having been
a member of the town board of Thorp and village trustee ever since
taking up his residence here, and a member of the school board of
Joint District No. 4 of Thorp and Withee. For six years he also
served as town clerk of Withee, and at the present time is serving
as deputy sheriff. He is a member of the Modern Woodrnen of America
and his religious affiliations are with the Polish Catholic Church.
Mr. Bogumill was married, June 21, 1887, to Mary Yonkins, who was
born in Pennsylvania, March 15, 1871, daughter of Ernest and Eliza
(Pitman) Yonkins. Her father, who was a native of Germany, died in
1904, but her mother is still living in Pennsylvania. Mr. and Mrs.
Yonkins had a family of twelve children, four of whom died young,
those who arrived at maturity being John, Mary, Margaret, William,
Jennie, Elizabeth, Catherine, Edward and Leon. To Mr. and Mrs.
Bogumill eleven children have been born, whose record in brief is
as follows: Gertrude, born March 17, 1888, is now Mrs. Charles
Herman, of Thorp Township, and has five children, Rose, Mary, John,
Louise and Thomas Leon, born Feb. 20, 1893, and who is now
secretary and manager of the Thorp Dairy Company, married Helen
Dzikowski John, born Jan. 26, 1895, who is in his father's store,
married Jeannette Hulls Lucy, born
Dec. 3, 1896, married Stanley Menski, bookkeeper in a bank at
Mosinee, Wis., and has two children, Stanley and Marjorie
Elizabeth, born Oct. 27, 1898, is bookkeeper in her father's store
Thomas, born Oct. 19, 1900 Edward, born June 13, 1902 Sophia, born
May 8, 1904 Pauline, born April 13, 1906 Frank, born June 2, 1910,
and Catherine, born April 30 1917.
Mary Younkins Bogumill surrounded by her children: Elizabeth, Frank, and daughter-in-law, Jeanette.
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