Husband Augustus F. Boas 1 2 3
Born: 1813 - Reading, Berks Co, PA 1
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Father: Jacob Boas (1786-1815) 1 3 4
Mother: Sarah Dick ( - ) 1 3 4
Marriage: 1835 5
Wife Emma E. Boyer 5
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General Notes: Husband - Augustus F. Boas
He attended the schools of his native town first, and afterward entered the Reading Academy, then under the principalship of Rev. John F. Greer, where he received excellent instruction in the Latin language. At the age of sixteen he engaged as a teacher of a school in Alsace township, Berks County. Finishing one term there, he was engaged eighteen months continuously as a teacher in the village of Kutztown. At the age of twenty he went to Allentown and entered the law-office of Charles Davis, Esq., as a student, remaining two years, when he returned to Reading, and completed his legal studies under Elijah Dechert, Esq., and was admitted to the bar August 4, 1835. After practicing law a short time he became chief clerk of the Berks County Bank, which had just been organized. At the time of its collapse, in 1842, Mr. Boas settled up the affairs of the bank, and, at the same time, engaged in the lumber business on an extensive scale. In 1855 he obtained the charter for the Reading Savings-Bank and became the president of it and was the principal stockholder. In 1863 he was one of the founders of the First National Bank, and was elected its cashier, serving from the time of its organization until 1878. He was also president of the Reading Savings-Bank until its suspension, in 1877, at which time, in order to protect the interest of the bank's creditors as best he could, freely surrendered all of his real estate and personal property, and retired from the business with an unblemished reputation. In November, 1883, he was tendered a position in the Commonwealth Guarantee, Trust and Safe Deposit Company, at Harrisburg, and soon after entered upon its duties.
No person in the city of Reading was a more devoted worker in the Sunday-school cause than Mr. Boas. In 1820 he became a pupil of the first Sunday-school in his native city, which was organized in the academy in 1819. When but sixteen years old he became superintendent of the first African Sunday-school of Reading. When the church Sunday-schools were organized he was chosen superintendent of the one connected with the First Reformed Church in Reading, and continued in that position for thirty years. He greatly assisted in establishing the Reading Library and in organizing St. Paul's Memorial Reformed Church, and in the encouragement of local charities.
During the Civil War he associated with the influential men of Reading in encouraging voluntary enlistment and the raising of money for bounty purposes.