BIO: JOHN A. BOSLER, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
   
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  >From Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania,
  Chicago: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905, pages 490-491
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      JOHN A. BOSLER, superintendent of the finishing department of the Mt.
  Holly Springs Paper Co., was born in Mt. Holly Springs, Cumberland county,
  Aug. 19, 1848, a son of Christopher and F. Catherine (Wolf) Bosler. The
  parents were both natives of Germany, where they were reared, coming to
  America when still young. The father died many years ago, when his son John
  was a lad of about eight years; he was a papermaker by trade. Two children
  were born to himself and wife, and our subject is the only one of the family
  now living.
      
      John A. Bosler was reared and educated at Mt. Holly Springs, and when
  only fifteen years of age he began to learn the papermaking trade. With the
  exception of six years he has been connected with the Mt. Holly Paper Co.,
  and those six years were spent at Holyoke, Mass., where for a portion of the
  time he was in charge of the finishing department of the paper works at that
  place. For thirty years Mr. Bosler has been superintendent of the finishing
  department at Mt. Holly Springs, and is a very efficient and skilled
  papermaker, being a thorough mechanic and a master of his calling. In public
  affairs he has served upon the school board, holding that position for six
  years. During twelve years he has served in the borough council as the choice
  of the Democratic party, and as the borough is strongly Republican this fact
  is a strong testimonial

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  of his remarkable personal popularity. Fraternally, Mr. Bosler is a member
  of the I. O. O. F., Lodge No. 650, and has been connected with the order for
  the past twenty-eight years, and passed all the chairs.
       
      In 1872 Mr. Bosler married Miss Mary R. Flemming, a daughter of Isaac
  Flemming, and she died in 1893, leaving a family of three children: Blanche
  married James Carroll McAllister, now a resident of Carlisle, and has several
  children; Frank is a papermaker of North Wilbraham, Mass., where he has charge
  of the finishing department of one of the largest mills in the country; Mary
  R. married Clyde Fisher of Mt. Holly Springs, a papermaker. In 1894 Mr.
  Bosler formed a second union, with Bertha M. Bricker, a daughter of John
  Bricker, of Carlisle. Mr. Bosler is a member of the Methodist Church, in
  which he is very prominent, serving as a member of the board of trustees.