Louis Boehmer
Louis Boehmer was an ethnic GermanAmerican agronomist and government advisor in Meiji period Japan who later worked as a success entrepreneur in Yokohama.
Louis Boehmer was born in Lneburg in Lower Saxony, Germany. He apprenticed as a gardener, and received an appointment to tend the royal gardens of the Kingdom of Hannover. However, after the FrancoPrussian War of 1867, he immigrated to America and become a successful gardener in Rochester, New York. In January 1871, when Kuroda Kiyotaka was in the United States hiring foreign advisors for his Hokkaid Colonization Office, Boehmer was recommended as a horticulturist by a mutual friend of Horace Capron.
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