BIO: William Bloser, Cumberland County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania.
Containing History of the Counties, Their Townships, Towns, Villages, 
Schools, Churches, Industries, Etc.; Portraits of Early Settlers and 
Prominent Men; Biographies; History of Pennsylvania; Statistical and 
Miscellaneous Matter, Etc., Etc.  Illustrated.  Chicago: Warner, Beers 
& Co., 1886.
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                                PART II.

             HISTORY OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA.

                               CHAPTER LX.

                       WEST PENNSBOROUGH TOWNSHIP.

575  WEST PENNSBOROUGH TOWNSHIP.

  WILLIAM BLOSER, retired, Plainfield, was born December 11, 1818, in 
West Pennsborough Township, this county.  Henry Bloser came, with his 
family, from Lancaster County, Penn., to Frankford Township, this 
county, in very early times.  His son, Daniel, was twice married; on 
the first occasion to Eve Keihl, a native of this county, and settled 
near Hays Mill, this township.  Mrs. Daniel Bloser died in 1824, and he 
subsequently married Sarah Rex, and moved to Richland (now Crawford) 
County, Ohio, in about 1840, where they resided until she died, when he 
lived a retired life with his son until his death.  Our subject, the 
second born by the second marriage, and only one living of his mother's 
five children, received his education in the schools of the home 
district and early apprenticed himself to the carpenter's trade, which 
he has followed nearly all his life.  He married, February 14, 1851, 
Miss Sarah Waggoner, a native of Frankford Township, this county, and 
to this union were born nine children, five of whom are living:  Mary, 
Mrs. Kate Corman, Elizabeth, Mrs. Alida Smith and Anna.  Mrs. Bloser 
died November 5, 1866, and Mr. Bloser subsequently married, April 7, 
1868, Miss Mary A. Kendig, a native of this township, and who moved to 
Franklin County, Penn., at six years of age, with her parents, Emanuel 
and Anne (Bowers) Kendig, natives of Lancaster County, Penn., but 
residing in Cumberland County from childhood.  They resided at Orrstown 
at the time of their death; Mr. Kendig dying April 11, 1863, and his 
widow, February 3, 1869.  To Mr. and Mrs. Bloser were born one son 
(William Edward) and one daughter (Nora, deceased).  Mr. Bloser has 
been industrious and successful in life and has acquired a fine farm of 
204 acres in Frankford Township.  In addition to this he owns a fine 
home in Plainfield and a handsome plat of four acres, on which is 
established the Plainfield Cemetery, located in 1867.  Mr. Bloser and 
his worthy wife and family are members of the Church of God, and he has 
been an elder ever since the church was established.  He is a life-long 
Republican and an earnest advocate of the principles of temperance.