Gustave Boël
Gustave André Boël (18 May 1837 – 31 March 1912) was a Belgium, Belgian industrialist and liberalism, liberal politician. He was the father of Pol Clovis Boël. Career Boël was the son of farmers (Salasse farm), growing up with four brothers and a sister. Boël studied at the industrial school of Houdeng-Aimeries and in 1851, at the age of 14, started working at the ''Etablissements Ernest Boucquéau''. He became foreman of the factory and in 1865 he became plant manager. Ernest Boucquéau, at the edge of bankruptcy and faced with the refusal of his family to help him, asked Boël and his accountant to assist him in saving the company. They helped gather the necessary funds to finish the work he had started on the railroad tunnel between Enghien and Geraardsbergen of the railroad of Braine-le-Comte to Ghent. On 16 July 1880, Ernest Boucquéau died without leaving an heir and he bequeathed his fortune and his companies to Gustave Boël and his accountant. When the accountant ...
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