Julius Bodenstab (January 13, 1834 – June 1, 1916) was a German American immigrant, businessman, and Wisconsin pioneer.
The 27th Wisconsin Infantry served in the western theater of the war, and participated in the Vicksburg Campaign and operations in Arkansas and Alabama.
During these years, the Liberal Republicans operated in a short-term coalition with the Wisconsin Democrats known as the Reform Party.
Around 1875, he is reported to have sold the farm and gone into the real estate business, including building the Howards Grove Cheese Factory in 1878 (now operated as a museum of early cheesemaking under the name of "The Julius Bodenstab Cheese Factory"[5]) and trading in several lots in the nearby hamlet of Franklin in the 1880s.
He appears to have kept in contact with family back in Germany, as he sponsored a nephew who arrived in New York Harbor in 1902.
[7] In November 1908, his son Henry, an attorney, was elected to a four-year term as a Republican state senator from Milwaukee County.