Search of Ancestry.com gives very little for that last name in the U.S. I did find one ship's passenger listing, for: boje swidden, 11 Jun 1852, age 29, male, from Deutschland, arrived from Bremen, Germany to USA on the ship Matadon You may need to look for alternate spellings to get census data, or look at the census of Cedar Rapids for 1860 until you find what you seek. Kevin in Missouri