BIO:  John L. BOSSERMAN, Reading Township, Adams County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania
Chicago:  Warner, Beers & Co., 1886
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Part III, History of Adams County, Page 503

JOHN L. BOSSERMAN, farmer, P. O. East Berlin was born in Reading Township, Adams 
Co., Penn., December 23, 1844, and is a son of Daniel and Susanna (Lerew) 
Bosserman, natives of this county.  His father resided all his life in Reading 
Township, engaged in farming, but retired from active life some time prior to 
his death, which occurred March 27, 1886; his widow, is yet living at the age of 
sixty-six years.  John L. was reared on a farm, remaining with his parents until 
twenty-five years of age, when he married and located on his father’s farm, 
where he lived until the spring of 1886.  He then moved to where he now resides, 
and where he owns 100 acres of land.  He makes a specialty of raising fine 
stock, cattle, etc.  He was married September 9, 1869, to Dilla J. Raffenspiger.  
They are the parents of six children:  Minnie K., Albert L., Almira, Nettie M., 
Collin A. and Ryno.  Mr. Bosserman was drafted during the Rebellion, but paid 
$850 for a substitute.  He is a Republican in politics.