Bio: Bodle, D. W. (1881)

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Surnames: Bodle, Groff

----Source: The History of Northern Wisconsin (Marathon County, Wis.) 1881, page 573

D. W. BODLE, boarding house, Spencer, born in Orange Co., N. Y., May 24, 1837, and was raised on a farm in Pennsylvania, where his parents had moved. He entered the mercantile business, first in Green Lake County and afterward tried hotel keeping, opening the Adams House, which he kept till coming to Spencer in 1876. He kept the Maxwell Wood & Co.'s boarding house, then went into the Bodle House, and from that he built his present house on Main street. In 1867, he married Miss Anna Groff, of Green Lake County. They have two children, Jessie, three years old; and Harrie, eight. Mr. Bodle served as Supervisor in 1878, also in other town offices.