This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: BISHOP, BOEHMLER Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Vk.2ADE/137.560.2 Message Board Post: There are two references to BSIHOP in the booklet. "Another important name among the early settlers was S.A. Bishop, who came in June, 1852. There were only six families then in Cedar Falls. He built a drugstore on the corner where the Citizens Savings Bank now stands. When he came, the woods from 5th to 7th streets were so thick with trees and bushes as to be impassable. Mrs. Jacob Boehmler and Mrs. F.D. Peirce are his daughters. He had shipped in for his drugstore a barrel of whiskey which was not up to standrd. A man offered him in exchange for the whiskey, the lot now occupied by the Rock Island station. He accepted the offer and in five months sold the lot for $79.00." "There were five Boehmler brothers in the Civil war. Two were in Andersonville. Jacob Boehmler, who enlisted three times before he was accepted, is the only one now living. Their father, a pioneer boot and shoe maker, had at one time twelve men working in the shop, which stood at 116 Main street, where Bishop's Paint store is located."