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JULIUS BOECK, who has had long experience in the confectionery business and is a practical candy manufacturer, is one of Grand Island's substantial citizens. He has maintained his home in this city since 1883 and in 1912 erected his handsome residence at No. 509 West First street. Mr. Boeck is a member of the city council and has served three years on the Grand Island school board.

Julius Boeck was born in Schleswig, Germany, July 23, 1865. His parents were Professor Heinrich Albert and Henrietta (Herman) Boeck, both of whom were born and died in Germany. Of their nine children, six are living, three of whom reside in the United States. Julius Boeck has a brother, John, who is a physician of Boise City, Idaho; and a sister, Dora, who lives at Phoenix, Arizona, the widow of Albert Geyler. By the time he was fifteen years old because of his father's attention to his education, Julius Boeck was well advanced in his studies and also was a youth of business enterprise. At that time he came alone to the United States and soon found employment in an Iowa drug store, where he remained in the drug business with his brother for five years. In 1883 he came to Grand Island, Nebraska, and for two years was a clerk for the firm of Viet & Roeser then worked for Mr. Roeser alone for two years before he went into the grocery business for himself finally establishing his own confectionery business. Mr. Boeck then went on the road and represented the Dolan Fruit Company for two years. Following this he became travelling (sic) salesman for the Omaha Candy Company and continued in that relation for the next fifteen years. During this time Mr. Boeck prudently husbanded his resources and in 1907 began the manufacture of candy, operating as the Elting Candy Company. He met with success in this enterprise but his plant was destroyed by fire in June, 1918, since which time business has not been resumed, largely on account of the shortage of sugar. At present he is a member of the travelling staff of the Mueller-Keller Candy Company, of Saint Joseph, Missouri.

Mr. Boeck married, in 1886, Miss Dora Iveis, who was born at Springfield, Illinois, a daughter of Cornelius Iveis, who has conducted a hotel and grocery in Grand Island for four years. Mr. and Mrs. Boeck have had four children, namely; Emma Henrietta, a bookkeeper and cashier in her father's candy factory; Pearl Alfreda, a teacher in the public schools; Edith Rebecca, a cashier in a sugar factory; and Helen, who died at the age of two years. Mr. Boeck and his family belong to the Lutheran church. He is an active factor in the local Republican politics, and on many occasions has served in public office with great efficiency. He belongs to a number of fraternial (sic) organizations, among these being the Odd Fellows, the Elks, the American Order of United Workmen, the Maccabees and the United Commercial Travelers.

Transcribed by Larry Coates

History of Hall County
by Buechler, Barr, & Stough (Published 1920)
Transcribed by Larry Coates