Born in Skanderup, in Ribe County, Denmark in 1868, the entrepreneurial Boysen came to America around 1886. He met and married Illinois native Anna Leet in Chicago and settled near Gray, in Audubon County, Iowa, in the early 1890s. Over the next decade or so Asmus was involved in banking and other capitalist ventures in northwestern Iowa and also served as Representative in the Iowa General Assembly from 1900-1903.

Born in Skanderup, in Ribe County, Denmark in 1868, the entrepreneurial Boysen came to America around 1886. He met and married Illinois native Anna Leet in Chicago and settled near Gray, in Audubon County, Iowa, in the early 1890s. Over the next decade or so Asmus was involved in banking and other capitalist ventures in northwestern Iowa and also served as Representative in the Iowa General Assembly from 1900-1903.