Cook County IL Archives Biographies.....Bolen, John L 1863 - 
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Author: Goodspeed, W.A., & Healy, D.D. (Eds.)

John L. Bolen was born in Hancock county, Tennessee, on September 1, 1863, and 
is a son of Pleasant and Nancy Bolen, both of whom were natives of that State. 
The father was a farmer by occupation, was of English descent and served four 
years in the Union army during the Civil war.

John L. early in life decided not to become a farmer. He was educated in the 
common and high schools of Marion county, Indiana, to which place his parents 
removed at the close of the Civil war, a business college, Oberlin (Ohio) 
college, Chicago College of Law and the law department of the Lake Forest 
university, graduating from the latter in 1894 with the degree of Bachelor of 
Laws. However, he had begun the active duties of life before this date or in 
1884, when he had purchased an interest in a country newspaper. After a year 
he learned there was no money in the business, whereupon he sold out and 
engaged in abstract and title work. He was first a clerk in an abstract office 
in 1886 and was thus occupied in various capacities until 1899, nearly ten 
years of which was with the Security Title & Trust Co., and in the meantime 
studied law, graduated in the same and was admitted to the bar in 1894. He is 
a wide reader, takes great interest in public affairs and has been identified 
with a number of important reform and improvement movements. Since 1903 he has 
been treasurer of the North-Western Mortgage & Trust company. He has been a 
resident of Chicago for about twenty years. He is a member of the Masonic, Odd 
Fellow and Royal Arcanum organizations, and has held all the offices in the 
subordinate and encampment branches of the Odd Fellows. He is a Republican in 
his political views, but often acts independently in local politics. He is not 
active in religion but is an adherent of the Methodist church. Mr. Bolen owns 
considerable property in Chicago, its suburbs, Michigan and the South. On 
April 3, 1909, he married Albertie E. Braund. Mrs. Bolen's parents reside in 
the vicinity of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, and are an old and well-known 
family.


Additional Comments:
Goodspeed, W.A., & Healy, D.D. (Eds.). (1909). History of Cook County, 
Illinois. Chicago: The Goodspeed Historical Association.

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