Biographical Sketch of A. D. Bortle, St. Joseph, Buchanan County, MO

>From "History of Buchanan County, Missouri, Published 1881, St. Joseph
Steam Printing Company, Printers, Binders, Etc., St. Joseph, Missouri.
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A. D. Bortle, broom manuafacturer, was born in Middleburg, Schoharie
County, New York, on March 3, 1852, and when three years of age em-
igrated to Wisconsin, his father, J. H. Bortle, locating with his 
family in West Salem, LaCrosse County, being among the early settlers
in that section.  A. D. was there raised and educated.  The family
was located for a time in Minnesota, but vacated the state during the
Indian massacre.  In 1869, our subject went to Clear Lake, Iowa, where
he remained one and a half years; thence to Stewartsville, Missouri,
where he learned the broom making trade.  For five years he was in a
factory at Falls City, Nebraska, and took up his abode in St. Joseph,
Missouri, in the autumn of 1879.  The superiority of his goods has
attained a wide spread and well merited reputation.  He was married,
in 1881, to Miss Ida Bliss.  Mr. Bortle is a member of the I.O.O.F.

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