Obituary Record

Henry Bolln
Died on 10/20/1915

Date of Death: 20 October 1915

Burial: Forest Lawn, Omaha NE

Findagrave Memorial: 183807346

#1 Obituary The Enterprise 22 October 1915

Henry Bolln, 68

Henry Bolln died at his home in Omaha last Monday. He was a brother of Claus Bolln of this city and has many friends here who will regret his death. For a number of years after coming to Omaha, he was in the grocery business and was one of the organizers of the German Savings Bank during its existence as director. In1881 he represented Douglas County in the lower house of the Legislature and was county treasurer of Douglas County for two terms and city treasurer of Omaha for four years. He made and retained many friends and was a most kindly disposed man. He was 68 years old at the time of his death and had been in poor health for a number of years.

#2 Obituary The Enterprise 20 October 1915

Henry Bolln, of Omaha, is dead age 68 years. He was a clerk on 18th Street in Omaha where we lived on that street in 1870. He afterwards married a daughter of Hans Beckman, south of Fort Calhoun, he built a small store where Rix Bank now stands and also owned the Gold Farm and a farm near Blair, in after years.

When he opened his first store in the Patte block, in Omaha, Hans Schwager and I bought the first goods he sold, we were sent there by Chris Rathman; part of one purchase was for him. Then came the Bolln and Seivers store, farther south, on the same street, and they were prosperous till the Beckman saloon was built in the rear, and they were also bartenders when the others were absent. One day Henry told me that the treating was becoming an enormous expense. Henry was one of the most generous good hearted fellow we ever knew and so he fell into the hands of his fool friends, several times when we visited him in his store he told them how he had refused to run for various offices and also to be captain of a military company. The last time we remember we felt sorry for him as he stroked his forehead like a man in a dream, and said his business required all his time but they had been there three times that one-week.

Besides Captain of Company H.N.N.G., he was Omaha city treasurer, councilman, member of the legislature and county treasurer, and was an incorporator and director of the old defunct German Savings Band that left him many enemies in this county. He has been later in the real estate business and came to Joe Bolln in Fort Calhoun often.

Henry Bolln, we believe, was personally honest and sincere, but lacking a real financial training for important measures and carried away by trusting fool friends who did not care who was ruined so long as they got the spoils, he had to suffer.

His family and friends have our sympathy. W.H. Woods

~~~ Obituary courtesy of the Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Blair Library at Blair Nebraska.~~~

Printed in the Washington County Enterprise on 10/22/1915


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