BIO: John Herman 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.

  JOHN HERMAN BOSLER, of Carlisle, is the oldest living representative 
of the family.  He was born December 14, 1830.  His early life was 
spent upon his father's farm.  At the age of seventeen he went to 
Cumberland Academy, and from there entered Dickinson College.  He left 
college to enter into a partnership with his father in the milling and 
distillery business, in which he remained for five years.  He then 
withdrew to engage in the iron business in Huntington County, where he 
remained for two years, during which time he was married, on October 1, 
1856, to Mary J., eldest daughter of James and Martha (Saiger) Kirk, of 
Mifflintown, Juniata Co., Penn.  Shortly after his marriage he returned 
to Cumberland County, and from that time was engaged in the milling, 
distilling and produce business until 1870.  In this year he and his 
youngest brother, George, established a cattle ranch on the plains of 
the great West, which they have continued to the present time.  They 
were the pioneer representatives of this business from Cumberland 
County.  Mr. Bosler is one of the most active and successful business 
men of Carlisle.  He is at present president of the Carlisle 
Manufacturing Co., a director in the Carlisle 

370  BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.

Dauphin Bank, and director of the Ogallalla Land & Cattle Co. of 
Nebraska, as well as being engaged in other large western enterprises.  
Mr. and Mrs. Bosler are members of the Second Presbyterian Church of 
Carlisle.  They have had ten children, six of whom are living, viz.:  
Gertrude D., wife of E. W. Biddle, attorney at law, of Carlisle; Herman 
E., who is a graduate of Dickinson College, and at present is manager 
of Snake Creek Cattle Ranch in northern Nebraska; Eliza McClellan, 
Jennie M. Fleeta Kirk and Kirk.

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