John G. Bosch

As printed in 1905

JOHN G. BOSCH, JR.

brother, who was a brewer, and for whom he worked some three years. His next step was a venture in the dairy business, which he carried on most successfully for twelve years. Going out of this, he took a much-needed rest of a whole year. In

West- Burlington, is John G. Bosch, Jr., who, in company with his brother, conducts a model and up-to-date meat-market at 105 Broadway, using the firm style of Bosch Brothers. Mr. Bosch was born in Burlington township, Des Moines county.

1871 he opened up a boarding-house at fet. 21, 1863, and received his education 852 Washington Street,' and conducted this place till 1875. when he bought his present farm of forty acres in Flint River township. Here he has since lived, carrying on farming, general gardening, fruit raising, and caring for a large vineyard.

April 19, 1861, he married Miss Susan M. Boeck, by whom he has three children,.August, John, and Charles, all living and all at home. Mrs. Bosch passed away Aug. 28, 1900, aged sixty-two years, leaving her husband very lonely. She was a good woman and kind neighbor.

Mr. Bosch has always been a stanch Democrat, and though he has never aspired to any office, yet he has constantly done all in his power to promote the good in the public schools of that township and in the German school at North Hill, from which last he was graduated in the class of 1877. After finishing his education he was associated with his father in the work of the farm until attaining his twenty-first year, at which time he began his individual career in life by acquiring the trade of a butcher under the direction of his material uncle, George Boeck, as did also his brother.

After learning their trade the two brothers, in company with Mr. Fred Dane, went to Sioux City, and together engaged in the meat business, where they continued for one year with fair success, at the end of which time thev returned to

West Burlington; and Iuto, Aug. 17, 1885, Bosch Brothers" im-at-niarket was cstablisheil. under the same name which it now bears, by the brothers John (george and August Adam Bosch.

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On Oct. 26, 1892, he was united in marriage to Miss Ida B. Sackbauer, daughter of John Sackbauer, and to them have been born two daughters and one son, these being, Charlotte, Mclba, and Edwin, all of whom have enjoyed excellent educational advantages.

.August A. Bosch, brother of our subject, was born July 30. 1862, and married Miss Bertha Sackbauer, sister of Mrs. John Bosch, and they have five children, Gussie, Clarence, Meta, Mildred, and Herbert.

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As printed in Biographical review of Des Moines County, Iowa (1905). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.