BIO: Charles BOONE, Clearfield County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Judy Banja & Sally Copyright 2005. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/clearfield/ NOTE: Use this web address to access other bios: http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/clearfield/1picts/swoope/swoope.htm _____________________________________________________________ From Twentieth Century History of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania, and Representative Citizens, by Roland D. Swoope, Jr., Chicago: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, 1911, page 598. _____________________________________________________________ CHARLES BOONE, owner and proprietor of the Hileman House, at Madera, Pa., is the very popular host of one of the best conducted public houses of one of Clearfield county. He was born December 1, 1876, at Coalport, Pa., and is a son of William and Amanda (Davis) Boone. William Boone, who is a veteran of the Civil war, resides at Coalport, which has been the family home for many years. He married Amanda Davis, who died there and was buried at Utahville. She was a woman of many virtues and left a wide circle of friends and the following children: Anna, Alice, Mattie, Zillah, William, Charles, Harry and Odis. She was a member of the United Brethren church, to which religious body her husband also belongs. Charles Boone obtained his education in the public schools of Coalport. Afterward he embarked in a livery business there in which he continued until September 1, 1908, when he purchased the Hileman House from Clark Hileman and has conducted it ever since, enjoying a liberal amount of patronage. Mr. Boone was married July 11, 1904, to Miss Sadie Anthony, a daughter of Miles Anthony, a resident of Coalport. Mrs. Boone has an older sister and brother, Cora and John. In politics Mr. Boone is a Republican. He is a member of the L. O. O. M. at Houtzdale, Pa.