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Alanson
Boomer,
L E
Boomer
and
Boomer’s
Dam
Alanson
Boomer
Alanson Boomer, farmer, Secs. 9 and 8; P.O.
Watertown; born
L E
Boomer
At the Government sale the land was bought in his
brother’s L. E. Boomer’s name.
Mr.
Wood
The land was all wild, but Mr. Wood, who had
squatted on one of the sections and whom they bought out, had built one of the
earliest log houses erected in the township, in which Mr. Boomer lived till
1841, when he went back to New York; from that time till 1845, it was in the
hands of a tenant; then Mr. L. E. Boomer came West and took possession.
Indians used frequently to come to trade, but they
had no trouble with them, never even had anything stolen, which Mr. Boomer
attributes to keeping whiskey away from them and treating them as honorably as
he would white men. At one time his
brother anticipated trouble and wrote to the Governor, who sent arms to the
settlers, but fortunately it proved a false alarm.
Boomer
Dam
In 1849, Mr. L. E. Boomer built a dam and saw-mill,
and made bricks as well as farming.
Alanson
Boomer
In January, 1858, Mr. Alanson Boomer bought his
brother out after being East sixteen years.
He built himself the handsomest farmhouse in the county, in 1861, and
also erected all the barns and outbuildings; he now owns 350 acres of land, and
raises principally wheat, oats, barley and corn, and makes a specialty of
fattening stock, keeping about forty head constantly ready for the market. Married Miss Lydia Van Wormer, of Watertown
Township, January 12, 1862; they had one little boy who died when 1 month old;
he has since adopted two children, the first a boy [editor’s note: Mason], who was drowned when about 8 years
old, and then a little girl named Alice, now living. He was Ward Supervisor two years.
Derived
from: The History of Jefferson County,
Wisconsin by C. W. Butterfield,
1879
1847
06 30 Specimen of brick from the first
kiln burnt at the new yard of L. E. Boomer, one mile below the village, on
the east side of the river. Watertown Chronicle
1859
06 30 Drowned. A man named Patrick Cullen, who has been
working on the Chicago and Northwestern
Railroad in this city, was drowned last evening about 8 o’clock attempting
to cross the river at Boomer’s dam. WD
1897
Jefferson County Union, 07 02 1897
Another old and well known resident, of Watertown,
Alanson Boomer, has been called to his final abode. He died Friday morning at 4 o’clock. Mr. Boomer was 82 years of age and had been a
resident of Wisconsin for sixty-one years.
He had been ill since Thursday.
He leaves two daughters, Mrs. Chas. A. Vanghan, of this place, and Mrs.
M. Douglass, of Waterloo. The funeral
was held Sunday afternoon at two o’clock.
Services were conducted at the house by Rev. G. C. Weisa. Alanson
Boomer, wife Lydia and son Mason are buried in Oak
Hill Cemetery
Cross-References:
Boomer
Street named in honor of the Boomer clan
