Bio: Wilms, Boyce August (GAR-Civil War - 2017)

Transcriber: Robert Lipprandt
bob@wiclarkcountyhistory.org 

Surname: Badger, O’Brien, Wilms

----Source: The Tribune - Phonograph (Abbotsford, WI) 5/31/2017

By: Kevin O’Brien

Boyce August Wilms, born in Germany and married to an Irish immigrant, served in the 21st Regiment of the Wisconsin volunteer Infantry.

He was a druggist and barber in Colby until his death in 1920 at the age of 86.

He also made and sold electric Magnetic, a tonic regarded as “snake oil.”

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Bio: Wilms, Boyce August and Cathern (Badger)
http://www.wiclarkcountyhistory.org/4data/92/92416.htm 

Colby Memorial Cemetery Index: Wilms, Boyce August and Cathern (Badger)
http://www.wiclarkcountyhistory.org/cemeteries/colby/colbymemorial/WILDE.htm 

Obit: Wilms, Boyce August
http://www.wiclarkcountyhistory.org/1data/22/22028.htm 

Obit: Wilms, Cathern (Badger)
http://www.wiclarkcountyhistory.org/0data/7/7019.htm 

 

 


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