13-05-1876: Op nominatieve staat van milicien-verlofgangers die in werkelijke dienst worden opgeroepen, te Ambt Hardenberg.

Heeft een tijdje in Amerika gewoond.

William Bemboom was born within three and a half miles of Jefferson City, in the
Frog Hollow neighborhood and came to Jefferson City at the age of seventeen,
unable to speak a word of English. He was the son of John Bernard and Anna
Whekamp Bemboom, both natives of Holland who married in that nation and came
here prior to the Civil War. For a time J.B. Bemboom worked at Pohl?s
brick yard; then on a farm near St. Thomas, where he and his wife made brick in
molds by hand. In the early 1880s they came to Frog Hollow southwest of
Jefferson City where he bought a tract of land, built a log cabin and reared his
family.

J.B. Bemboom was a Democrat, and the first road supervisor of his district. He
employed laborers at twenty-five cents per day, or seventy-five cents for a man
with a team and wagon. Mr. Bemboom contracted tuberculosis and in 1891 the
family returned to their old home in Holland where he died in 1893. Mrs. Bemboom
died five years later. Of the ten children, five brothers and a sister died of
tuberculosis.

William Bemboom attended school in Holland at Slagharen province of Overysel,
until he attained the age of ten. He thereafter studied under a private tutor,
specializing in agriculture, horticulture and physical culture. In 1903 he had
reached the age where the laws of Holland obliged him to enter military service.
After six months service which he found irksome, he exercised his rights as an
American, being born in this country, to return to his native land. He came back
to Jefferson City in 1904, unable to speak a word of the English language.

He worked on a farm for awhile, then learned the shoe business and worked in
that business twelve years. He spent two years as an employee at the
penitentiary under the Major and Gardner administrations. At this time he
entered the services of the Missouri Pacific where he was fireman and locomotive
engineer from 1918 to 1931. In the latter year he became a member of the police
force, serving three years and seven months. He was a man of powerful physique
with a determination to perform efficiently any task within his line of duty.

Mr. Bemboom was married May 12, 1908, to Miss Anna Kaufman, daughter of Fred and
Annie Drexler Kaufman, natives of Switzerland and old residents of Jefferson
City. Mr. Kaufman was a watchmaker by trade. They had eight children: Carrie,
wife of Dean Higgins; Bernard, married Beatrice Steinmetz; and Irene, Clemens,
William, Jr., Joseph, Anton and Mary Ann, all of Jefferson City.

In May and June of 1936 Mr. Bemboom visited his sister and old friends and
relatives in Holland. Contrasting conditions in Holland as he remembered them as
a boy with conditions here, he left well equipped with funds to entertain his
old friends whom he expected to find in very modest circumstances. He found an
altogether different Holland. Keeping out of the World War, that nation traded
with both sides and received advantage of the high prices of that time. Many of
his friends, in their fifties, had accumulated a modest fortune and retired.
They insisted on entertaining him as their guest, consequently the trip cost him
less than expected.

Mr. Bemboom was a skilled gardener and horticulturist, and as a hobby produced
and sold more than ten thousand dollars worth of plants from the little tract of
land included in the home he owned in the western part of the city.

from "The Illustrated Sketch Book and Directory of Jefferson City and Cole
County, Missouri" - Published 1900.