BIO: Ivan E. GARVER, Blair County, PA

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Donehoo, George P., Editor-in-Chief.  Pennsylvania, A History, 
Vol. 3, Biography.  New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., Inc., 
1926, pages 128-129. 
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  IVAN E. GARVER, was born October 18, 1887, the son of Abraham Lincoln, and 
Ella (Bare) Garver, who is living.  Ivan E. Garver is a prominent business 
man of Roaring Spring, Pennsylvania, the town of his birth.  He attended the 
public school and high school of Roaring Spring, thence went to the Andover 
Academy, and from that institution entered Harvard University, but he did 
not complete the University course.  After leaving Harvard, Mr. Garver 
entered business with his father, being connected with the Roaring Spring 
Blank Hook Book Company in 1907.  Filling various positions in that 
enterprise, he became treasurer and general manager of the company, and this 
position he still holds.  The Roaring Spring Blank Book Company was 
established in 1886 by D. M. Bare, A. L. Garver, D. R. Wike, and E. G. Bobb 
as equal partners.  The company was incorporated in 1907, with E. G. Bobb as 
president, J. W. Smith as vice-president, Ivan E. Garver as treasurer and 
general manager, and Russell B. Garver as secretary, (see following 
biography).  The purpose of the concern is the manufacture of blank books, 
copy pads, school stationery and like materials.  The concern was developed 
mainly by A. L. Garver, Ivan E. Garver's father, from 1892 to the time of 
his death in 1920.  The company is the largest of its kind in Pennsylvania.  
It has agents throughout the United States and the West Indies, and employs 
two hundred persons.  Its plant occupies three acres of floor space.
  In politics Mr. Garver is a Republican.  In fraternal circles he is 
devoted to Masonry, being a member of the local lodge, Free and Accepted 
Masons, and of all other bodies of that order, including the thirty-second 
degree and the Shrine.  He is a member of the Blairmont Country Club, the 
Altoona Cricket Club, the Spruce Creek Rod and Gun Club, the Seaview Golf 
Club, and other social bodies.  His hobby is golf.  In religion he is a 
member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.