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Cedar Hill, following his profession, but is
gradually retiring from active practice, in
connection with his son, Dr. C. D. Roberts.
He has practiced medicine in this community
about thirty-two years. He has never had
political aspirations, but has been a quiet
citizen, and he and his wife have been consistent
members of the Missionary Baptist
Church at Cedar Hill for Inany years.
ENRY BOLL, who has been a resident
of Dallas county, Texas, since 1855, is a
native of Canton Aargau, Switzerland,
and dates his birth November 14, 1830. He
is a son of Henry and Magdelina (Peier) Boll,
natives of the same canton. Until nineteen
years of age he lived on a farm, then went to
Zurich to learn the butcher business, and
served an apprenticeship of four years. He
engaged in business for himself, and was thus
employed until he emigrated to the United
States.
Mr. Boll was first married September 22,
1852, to Miss Anna Notzli, a native of the
canton of Zurich and a daughter of Jacob
Notzli. By this union two children were
born, and in 1854 the wife and both little
ones died. The following February Mr.
Boll came to America, sailing from Bremen,
and, after a voyage of sixty-one days, landing
in Galveston. He went to Houston, where
lie spent a few days, and from that place came
to Dallas, making the journey with ox team
and on foot, and reached his destination on
the 4th of July, 1855. He first settled in the
French colony; was detailed to do the butchering,
which was done three times a week,
and also assisted in improving the farming
lands. After remaining in the colony aboutthree months, he and three of his countrymen
leased 160 acres of land of the colony; afterward
discovered that the colony had no title
to the land and abandoned it. Then, with his
brother-in-law, Jacob Nussbaumer, he engaged
in butchering and followed the business
until the breaking out of the war.
In January, 1862, Mr. Boll enlisted in
defense of his adopted country, and was assigned
to the commissary department. In
the spring of 1862 he was sent back to Texas
for cattle, and was given a place in the commissary
department of Colonel Burford's regiment,
where he remained until January 1,
1863. At that time he was assigned to a
position in the commissary department at
Post Waco to issue rations, collect and deliver
provisions in Louisiana and Texas, where he
remained until the close of the war.
Returning to Dallas county, he again engaged
in butchering, and continued the business
until 1869, being then in feeble health.
In that year he was elected City and County
Treasurer, filling the office for three or four
years, with honor to himself and to the entire
satisfaction of his constituents. Retiring
from office he took up his old business of
butchering and followed it successfully for
four years, during this time prospecting
through western Texas.
In 1880 Mr. Boll's brother, Professor Jacob
Boll, a naturalist, of whom mention is found
elsewhere in this work, died in Wilbarger
county, near the mouth of Pesor river. Mr.
Boll went there, took up his remains and
buried them in Dallas. About this time he
contracted a disease of the eyes, and has since
been gradually growing worse. He is now
totally blind in his right eye and the left one
was only partly saved by an operation performed
in Europe in 1889. Since his return
from Europe he has been retired from busi-
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Lewis Publishing Company. Memorial and Biographical History of Dallas County, Texas., book, 1892; Chicago, Illinois. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth20932/m1/671/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Dallas Public Library.