BIO: Russell B. 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, page 129.
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  RUSSELL B. GARVER - A son of Abraham Garver, one of the founders of the 
well-known business of the Roaring Spring Blank Book Company, Russell B. 
Garver, born in Roaring Spring, December 27, 1892, is a popular man in that 
town.  He attended the public school and the high school of Roaring Spring, 
and after graduation from the latter institution entered Williams College, 
from which he was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts in the class 
of 1915.  Mr. Garver worked for two and a half years as a chemist for the 
Pennsylvania Railroad.  He then was connected for a like period with his 
father as a clerk.  In 1920 he was made secretary of the Roaring Spring 
Blank Book Company, and still remains in that position, his brother, Ivan F. 
Garver being treasurer and general manager for the enterprise (see preceding 
biography).
  In politics Mr. Garver is a Republican.  He is a member of the Free and 
Accepted Masons, and all other bodies of the order, including the thirty-
second degree and the Shrine.  He belongs to the Blairmont Country Club, the 
Altoona Cricket Club, and the Spruce Creek Rod and Gun Club.  In religion he 
is a Presbyterian.
  Mr. Garver married, on June 28, 1919, Elizabeth Beck, and they are the 
parents of one daughter, Nancy Jane Garver, aged five years (1925).