BIO: Abraham Bosler, 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 XXXVIII.

                          BOROUGH OF CARLISLE.

369   BOROUGH OF CARLISLE.

  ABRAHAM BOSLER (deceased) was born in Silver Spring Township, 
Cumberland Co., Penn.  His paternal grandfather, John Bosler, when a 
young man, emigrated from Hanover, Germany, alone.  He settled between 
Elizabethtown and Maytown, Lancaster County, Penn., in 1761, and there 
married Miss Longenecker and had a large family.  His son John married 
Catherine Gish, of Lancaster County, and removed to Cumberland County, 
settling in Silver Spring Township in 1791.  They had three sons and 
two daughters, viz.: Jacob D., M. D., who married Ann D. Herman; John, 
who was married twice (his first wife was a daughter of the Rev. Jacob 
Keller, and his second a daughter of George Webert); Nancy also married 
twice, her first husband being John Rife, and her second, Melchoir 
Webert; Catherine, who married Dr. Fahnestock; Abraham, whose portrait 
appears at the head of this sketch, was the youngest child of John and 
Catherine (Gish) Besler.  On February 20, 1830, he married Eliza 
Herman, of Silver Spring Township, who was a daughter of Martin and 
Elizabeth (Bowers) Herman.  (See sketch of Hon. M. C. Herman, this 
volume.)  Abraham Bosler, early in life, engaged in merchandising at 
Hogestown, and a few years later formed a partnership with Francis 
Porter in the produce business, shipping largely in arks and boats on 
the Susquehanna River to Baltimore, Md.  Mr. Bosler, in the spring of 
1851, sold his property in Silver Spring and moved to South Middleton 
Township, where he purchased a farm, mill and distillery, and was here 
actively engaged in business until 1871, when he retired and moved to 
Carlisle, in which place he died December 21, 1883, in his seventy-
eighth year.  His wife survived him two years, and died in her seventy-
sixth year.  Early in life Mr. and Mrs. Bosler connected themselves 
with the Old Presbyterian Church at Silver Spring, and with 
certificates of dismissal from that church, upon their removal from 
Silver Spring, became members of the Second Presbyterian Church of 
Carlisle.  They were both liberal supporters of this church and deeply 
interested in its prosperity.  They had eight children, all born in 
Silver Spring Township:  John Herman, James Williamson, Benjamin C., 
Joseph, Elizabeth Bowers, Mary Catherine, George Morris and Charles, 
the last dying in infancy.