“The History of Jefferson County, Wisconsin”, published: Chicago:  
Western Historical Company.   1879.


ALANSON BOOMER, farmer, Secs. 9 and 8; P.O. Watertown; born 
Feb. 14, 1815, in Jefferson Co., N.Y.; on June 6, 1836, he came to 
Wisconsin and remained in Milwaukee, prospecting for about a year; in 
August, 1837, he located, temporarily on a school section in Waukesha, 
but left in December and came to Watertown Township, Jefferson Co., 
and took up a claim of two quarter-sections, and at the Government sale 
the land was bought in his brother L. E. Boomer’s name; 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. B. 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. B. 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; in 1849, Mr. 
L. E. B. built a dam and saw-mill, and made bricks as well as farming; in 
January, 1858, Mr. A. 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, who was drowned when about 8 years old, and then a little girl 
named Alice, now living.  He was Ward Supervisor two years.


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