Sullivan-Bradford County PA Archives Biographies.....SYLVARA, Edwin Granville 
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  Author: Thomas J. Ingham (1899)
  
      EDWIN GRANVILLE SYLVARA, one of the leading merchants of Dushore, was born
  in Tuscarora township, Bradford county, obtained his primary education in the
  public schools of Sullivan county, and later attended Dickinson Seminary, at
  Williamsport, Pennsylvania. In 1869 he secured a position as bookkeeper with
  Charles Pugh, a wholesale grocer of Wilkesbarre, where he remained ten years,
  and on returning to Dushore engaged in the butter business until 1884. In that
  year, in company with J. D. Reeser, he opened a general store, and together they
  conducted the business until 1891, when he purchased Mr. Reeser's interest and
  has since been alone. He carries one of the largest and finest lines of general
  merchandise in Sullivan county, occupying a large double store, and he is one of
  the most progressive and enterprising business men in this region. He employs
  five clerks, and in connection with his general mercantile business also deals
  largely in country produce.
  
      Mr. Sylvara was married May 1, 1879, to Miss Sarah E. Albertson, daughter of
  Samuel Albertson, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, who was born in Burlington, New
  Jersey, of Quaker stock, and was for thirty years superintendent of the Wolf,
  Hard & Company's glass works at Pittsburgh. Mr. and Mrs. Sylvara have two
  children: Leland A., born March 8, 1880; and Benjamin M., born September 24, 1890.
  
      Mr. Sylvara has a high standing in the Masonic fraternity, belonging to the
  blue lodge, chapter and commandery of Pittston, Pennsylvania, the consistory at
  Towanda, and the Lu Lu Temple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, of Philadelphia. In
  his political affiliations he is a Republican, and he has held the offices of
  school director and auditor in his borough. As a citizen he ever stands ready to
  discharge every duty devolving upon him, and he receives and merits the high
  regard of the entire community.
  
  
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                History of Sullivan County Pennsylvania
                by Thomas J. Ingham
                  
                Compendium of Biography
                  
                The Lewis Publishing Company
                Chicago: 1899
  
  
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