Biography extracted from History of Sauk County, Wisconsin Chicago: Western Historical Company, published 1880.

Prairie du Sac:

Jacob Bohn, plasterer and proprietor of greenhouse, Sauk City; was born in Heide, Germany, Aur. 16, 1827. In his native country, in the revolution of 1848, he was four years in active service in the German Army, and was wounded at Schleswig. He came to the United States in 1851, and has been a resident of Sauk City a greater part of the time since. During the war of the rebellion, he enlisted in Co. D. 9th W. V. I., and was wounded at Newtonia, Mo., where he was honorably discharged as First Lieutenant. He married, in Sauk City, Aldine Stadelmann; they have seven children- Hernan, Leander, Edmund, Amelia, wife of August Nietart, of Madison, Wis.; Alma, Elvina and Adale. Mr. Bohn is a member of the Masonic fraternity. In politics, he is a Republican.

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