James Williamson Bosler and Helen Beltzhoover

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Husband James Williamson Bosler ¹

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         Father: Abraham Bosler (Abt 1805-1883) 2 3
         Mother: Eliza Herman (Abt 1809-Abt 1885) 2 3

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Wife Helen Beltzhoover ¹

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         Father: Michael G. Beltzhoover (      -      ) 3 4
         Mother: Mary Herman (      -      ) 3 5

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1 M Frank C. Bosler ¹

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2 F Mary Eliza Bosler ¹

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3 M De Witt Clinton Bosler ¹

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4 F Helen Louise Bosler ¹

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General Notes: Husband - James Williamson Bosler

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He assisted on the farm until he entered Cumberland Academy, at New Kingston. Two years later he entered Dickinson College and remained through his junior year. During vacation he conceived the idea of going West, which he did with the approval of his parents. He taught school at Moultrie, Columbiana County, Ohio, during the winters of 1853-54. He then went to Wheeling, West Virginia, where he read law and was admitted to the bar. He then moved to Sioux City, Iowa, where he formed a partnership with Charles E. Hedges, to engage in real estate business. They then established the Sioux City Bank, under the firm name of Bosler & Hedges, and later they engaged in furnishing goods, cattle and general supplies for the Interior and War Departments of the Government, on the north Missouri River. The partnership was dissolved in 1866, and Mr. Bosler continued the business until the time of his death. During his residence in Sioux City he was an active politician, and in 1860 was sent as a delegate to the Charleston Convention. Having, by dint of energy and business capacity, acquired a considerable fortune, he returned, in 1866, to his native county in Pennsylvania and built a beautiful home in the suburbs of Carlisle. There he continued to reside until his death. He was a member of the Republican National Committee of 1880, and he, John Roach, ship builder, and Senator Chaffee, of Colorado, were a committee appointed in charge of the interest of Hon. James G. Blaine, at the Chicago convention in that year. For many years he was Mr. Blaine's warm personal friend. After the nomination of Garfield, he became one of his strong supporters. In 1882 he was nominated by the Republicans of the Nineteenth District for senator. This district had 1,800 Democratic majority and he reduced it to 130.
At the time of his death, he was president of the Palo Blanco Cattle Company, of New Mexico, and of the Carlisle Manufacturing Company, and director of the Carlisle Gas and Water Company. [HCC 1886, 370]

1 —, History of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warners, Beers & Co., 1886), Pg 370.

2 —, History of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warners, Beers & Co., 1886), Pg 369.

3 —, Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 714.

4 —, History of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warners, Beers & Co., 1886), Pg 370, 380.

5 —, History of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warners, Beers & Co., 1886), Pg 370, 380, 539.