BODENSTAB, G. A.

History of Northern Wisconsin. Chicago: Western Historical, 1881, p 1660

G. A. BODENSTAB, physician and surgeon, Fountain City [Cross Township, 
Buffalo County, Wisconsin; township as per 1878 Atlas of Wisconsin], was born 
20 May 1813 in Hanover, Germany. He came to America in 1846, and first 
located in Sheboygan County [in the Territory of Wisconsin until statehood 
granted 29 May 1848], where he practiced medicine. He also practice in 
Milwaukee for a short time. [The borders of Sheboygan County did not change 
after it was created from Milwaukee County on 07 December 1836.] He is a 
graduate of the Rush Medical College in Chicago [Cook County], and also a 
University in Hanover, Germany. He came to this place [Fountain City, 
Buffalo County] in 1864, and has been its leading physician since.

He [Dr. G. A. BODENSTAB] married Catherine GIRKA [GOERKI?], of Germany. They 
have one child, Edmund. [The 1880 Census of Fountain City, Buffalo County, 
Wisconsin, has Dr. G. A. BODENSTAB (p 298 A) as sixty-six years of age, born 
in Hanover (about 1814 by his age) to parents also born in Hanover; his wife, 
"Katharina" age fifty-five, born in Prussia (about 1824) to parents who were 
also born there; and son Edmund William, age fourteen, born in Wisconsin 
(about 1866). Also in the household is Katharina GOERKI, age twenty-seven, 
dress maker, born in Wisconsin to a father born in Hesse Kassel and a mother 
born in Prussia. Submitter, who is not researching these surnames, did not 
seek to clarify her relationship to any other members of this family by 
viewing census films from other years.]

Submitted by Cathy Kubly