HISTORY OF KENTUCKY AND KENTUCKIANS, E. Polk Johnson, three volumes, Lewis Publishing Co., New York & Chicago, 1912. Common version, Vol. III, pp. 1181-82. [Kenton County] ALBERT L. BOEHMER--One of the progressive business men who has contributed materially to the industrial and commercial prestige of the city of Covington is Albert Louis Boehmer, who is here engaged in manufacturing of paints and who has through his well directed endeavors built up a large and prosperous enterprise, which is both wholesale and retail in its functions. Mr. Boehmer was born in the city of Cincinnati, Ohio, on the 19th of August, 1868, and is a son of Bernard and Mary (Meyer) Boehmer, the former of whom was born in Bissendorf, Germany, and the latter of whom was born in Minster, Auglaize county, Ohio. Bernard Boehmer was reared and educated in his native land and as a young man he severed the ties which bound him to home and fatherland and set forth to seek his fortune in America. He located in the city of Cincinnati, where he followed the painter's trade, but he soon moved across the river to Covington, Kentucky, where he engaged in business on his own responsibility and where he continued as a successful contracting painter for a number of years. He died in Covington in 1887, at the age of fifty-four years, and his widow, who survived him about seven years, was fifty years of age at the time of her demise. Of the five children the subject of this review is the eldest and of the number only two are now living. Albert Louis Boehmer was reared to maturity in Covington and his early educational advantages were those afforded in the parochial schools. At the age of fourteen years he entered upon an apprenticeship to the painter's trade under the able direction of his father, with whom he continued to be associated until the death of the latter. Thereafter he continued business as a contracting painter for about six years. In 1893 he established a small manufactory of paints and from this modest nucleus he has built up a very successful busness [sic]. He has a well equipped retail paint store and practically all of the stock utilized in the same is manufactured by him. The trade of the concern is confined principally to Kenton and neighboring counties and is constantly increasing in scope and importance. Mr. Boehmer has shown a most progressive attitude and has interested himself in other local lines of business enterprise, including the development of real estate. He is president of the Beachwood Realty Company, which has effected the development and upbuilding of the attractive suburb of Beachwood. He is also secretary and treasurer of the Suburban Home & Land Company, and both of these corporations are now actively concerned in the developing of the fine suburban district known as Fort Mitchell. Though never a seeker of public office, Mr. Boehmer gives his allegiance to the Democratic party in so far as national and state issues are involved, but in local affairs he maintains a position independent of strict partisan lines. He is affiliated with the Knights of Columbus and the Catholic Knights of America, and both he and his wife are communicants in St. Benedictus Catholic church. On the 10th of May, 1910, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Boehmer to Miss Caroline E. Schmidt, who was born and reared in Covington and who is a daughter of Henry Schmidt, of whom individual mention is made on other pages of this work. Boehmer Meyer Schmidt = Cincinnati-Hamilton-OH Minster-Auglaize-OH Germany http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/kenton/boehmer.al.txt