My Genealogy Hound

A. E. Bloomburg, manager of the Bloomburg Lumber Company, of this city, is a native of Sweden, and born in 1844. In 1858 his father, who for some years had been successfully engaged in farming in America, lost his wife, and returned to Sweden for his children. While en route to America a second time the father died at Liverpool. Our subject had been educated in Sweden, and after coming to the United States, in 1858, began life as a farmer upon his father’s place. During the war he went to Kansas, and after the close of the Rebellion continued to live in that State until 1868. In that year he married Miss Emma Strong, who has borne him three children: Charles A., Lucy L. and Augusta. Mr. Bloomburg then farmed in Sebastian County, Ark., for fifteen years, and spent two years in the Rocky Mountains. In 1887 he formed a partnership with Mayor B. F. Hackett and John Sunburg, in the lumber business. These gentlemen have a large saw and planing mill, which has a capacity of 10,000 feet per day, and they furnish employment for a large number of men. Mr. Bloomburg is an influential citizen, and is the owner of several town lots and houses. In 1866 he served as mayor of the city, and in 1887 was elected an alderman. He is a Mason, and a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, to which his wife also belongs.