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BELGIANS IN AMERICA:    Biographies of Belgian settlers  

NICHOLAS BOCK.  Mr. Bock was one of the earliest arrivals in the infant village, coming in the year 1848. He was born in Belgium, in May, 1800 ; came to American en 1832. He lived for a time in Missouri, and moved from that State to Michigan in 1840. He was thus a pioneer beyond the Mississippi before he became a pioneer in the Wolverine Store. Shortly after his arrival in Dowagiac, he built the American House (now the Commercial), which he still owns, and of which he has been most of the time landlord. He has accumulated considerable property and recently built a ties brick residence, which is known as the Bock House, where he entertains "the wayfarer and the stranger" as he did in earlier years at use American

Source : Mathews, Alfred,  : History of Cass County, Michigan : with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers.; Chicago: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1882, 541  pgs.