This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/CIB.2ACI/260.673.2.1.1 Message Board Post: I don't have much on Edward, but here it is: "Edward Boomgaard, a clerk, lived at 618 Elliott [Grand Haven, Michigan] in the early 1900s with his wife, Effie. They later moved to Mercury Drive [Grand Haven Township]. Edward was Grand Haven Fire Chief from 1919 to 1937. He was born November 20, 1885 and died in August, 1967."