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View Tree for Clement Charles BolandClement Charles Boland (b. December 31, 1886, d. July 17, 1938)

Clement Charles Boland (son of John Lawrence Boland and Jane Orr) was born December 31, 1886 in Elkader, Iowa, and died July 17, 1938 in Garner, Iowa. He married Mamie Belle Kiene on 1913, daughter of George Kiene and Sanna Roalson.

 Includes NotesNotes for Clement Charles Boland:

In 1904, Clem Boland, at age 18, lost his mother to tuberculosis. In 1906, at age 20, his father was murdered. In January of 1910 he, along with his brothers Fred and Will, each received a Land Grant from the government, signed by president William Taft, of 160 acres each; side by side in the Kadoka, South Dakota area. Unfortunately, there was a severe drought and they couldn't work the land, so they all sold their grants to their brother John and returned to Iowa.
Baptised at St Joseph's Church in Elkader, Iowa on February 6, 1887 and his Godfather was Christe Boland and his Godmother was Margaret Orr.

Upon his return to Iowa, Clem bought a Pool Hall business in Swea City. He was an expert pool player and a very good wrestler. He bought one of the first Model T Fords, no doors on the front, and often drove to Armstrong, Iowa with his fiance', Mamie Kiene to visit his brothers there. Eventually, Mamie (then a Lutheran) converted to the Catholic faith and they were married in 1913.

Mamie's family who lived in Swea City, Iowa, frowned on children being raised around a pool hall so Clem sold out and returned to Elkader, Iowa to farm. Shortly after Alice was born in 1923, the family moved to a farm in Ventura, Iowa. Clem's childhood friend from Elkader, Jack Malary, lived nearby in Clear Lake. After a financially disastrous fire that destroyed the barn (caused by the boys smoking in it), the family moved to Garner, Iowa in 1928. Soon after, a daughter, Madonna, was born in the house attended only by a midwife neighbor and a few years later a son Walter came along.

In 1938, with young children left to care for, Mamie lost her 52 year old husband Clem due to a brain tumor.

More About Clement Charles Boland and Mamie Belle Kiene:
Marriage: 1913

Children of Clement Charles Boland and Mamie Belle Kiene are:
  1. +Donald Clement Boland, b. November 27, 1913, Elkader, Iowa2, d. September 1986, California2.
  2. Vincent Anthony Boland, b. August 28, 1915, Elkader, Iowa3, d. July 1978, Omaha, Nebraska3.
  3. +Robert Gerald Boland, b. May 21, 1917, Swea City, Iowa4, d. April 23, 1997, Omaha, Nebraska4.
  4. +Sylvia Jane Boland.
  5. +Alice Agnes Boland.
  6. +Madonna Ann Boland.
  7. +Walter Joseph Boland, b. September 22, 1933, Iowa City, Iowa5, d. March 18, 1994, Charter Oak, Iowa5.
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