Michael Bossart and Ann Johnston

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Husband Michael Bossart ¹

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           Born: 9 Mar 1811 - Pleasant Unity, Westmoreland Co, PA 2
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         Father: John Bossart (      -1822) 2
         Mother: Elizabeth Poorman (      -1842) 2

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       Marriage: 29 Dec 1840 2

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Wife Ann Johnston ²

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         Father: Hon. William Johnston (1800-      ) 3
         Mother: Julia Ann Gorgas (      -      ) 4

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1 M Albert J. Bossart ²

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2 F Julia E. Bossart ²

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3 F Jennie F. Bossart ²

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4 M Martin B. Bossart ²

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5 M William Bossart ²

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General Notes: Husband - Michael Bossart

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He was reared on the farm of his uncle, Michael Poorman, until he was eighteen years of age, when he went to Pleasant Unity and learned the trade of hatting with John Armstrong. He worked at hatting for about three years and then accepted a clerkship with John Graff at Blairsville, on account of the eastern hat factories ruining his trade. He remained with Mr. Graff for seven years, then went to Ohio and was engaged for two years in the mercantile business and operating an ashery for making potash. In 1848 he returned to Westmoreland County, opened a store at New Derry which he conducted for six years, then entertained an idea of becoming a partner with Mr. Graff, but gave it up for lack of capital and went to Millersburg, Ohio. He remained there one year, but not liking the business methods of that place he boxed his goods and returned to Pennsylvania. In 1857 he came to Latrobe, opened a general mercantile store and was successful in that line of business for some years. His mercantile establishment was at the corner of Main and Ligonier streets, and was filled with a large stock of dry-goods, notions, groceries, and glassware.
He was a republican in political opinion and a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. Mr. Bossart, in June, 1888, sold seventy acres of his land adjoining the borough to some eastern capitalists who erected the Latrobe steel-works on the tract.

1 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 319.

2 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 320.

3 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 103.

4 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 102.