Blair County PA Archives Biographies.....Bobb, E. G. June 21, 1856 - 
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Source: Twentieth Century History of Altoona and Blair County, Pennsylvania, and Representative Citizens, Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold, 1911
Author: Jesse C. Sell

E. G. BOBB, manager of the D. M. Bare Paper Company at 
Roaring Spring, Pa., in which he is also financially 
interested, is an experienced man in this business, having 
been identified with it for twenty-two years. He was born at 
Tyrone, Pa., June 21, 1856, and is a son of Major Alexander 
and Matilda (Mattern) Bobb.
     Major Alexander Bobb was long a distinguished citizen 
of Blair County. He was born in Hanover Township, York 
County, Pa., in 1823, and died at Martinsburg, May 25, 1910. 
His parents were natives of Germany and his father, 
Frederick Bobb, came to America in 1818. Alexander Bobb 
learned the trade of moulder and prior to the Civil War 
worked in a number of foundries through the country and at 
Martinsburg became very popular with his fellow workmen and 
citizens generally. This was definitely shown at the time 
that the first company was raised at Martinsburg for the 
Civil War. After reaching Harrisburg the men became 
dissatisfied with their captain and refused to be mustered 
in. In this emergency, Mr. Bobb was invited by telegraph to 
become captain of the company, an office he accepted only 
after he was convinced that he was the only man that was 
equally acceptable to all the volunteers. This company 
served out an enlistment of three months and all returned 
home but Captain Bobb at once recruited a second company, 
for a service of nine months, and again as captain led them 
to the front. The records of those dark days tell of the 
gallantry of this company at Antietam and at Fredericksburg 
and particularly of Capt. Bobb, who there had command of the 
right wing of the 133d Pa. Vol. Inf. He commanded also at 
Chancellorsville. At the termination of the nine months he 
returned home once more but only to recruit a third company, 
of which he was commissioned major by Governor Curtin. He 
saw hard service up to the close of the war and on April 2, 
1865, while taking the breastworks at Petersburg, he 
especially distinguished himself for bravery and was at once 
breveted lieutenant-colonel, being one of the limited number 
of veterans in this section to have won that high official 
position. From the founding of the Grand Army Post at 
Martinsburg, he took a deep interest in its affairs and 
there are many who recall when his home was the accepted 
meeting place for the public gatherings on Decoration Day, 
appropriate exercises, in which he took an active part, 
being held on his front porch. Until the close of his life 
he was a true and patriotic citizen.
     After his military service was over, Major Bobb resumed 
his business interests, purchasing a part of the Martinsburg 
Foundry, but later moved to Roaring Spring, where he 
conducted a foundry for three years, when his plant was 
destroyed by fire. In his political sentiments be was a 
Republican and on that ticket, in 1873, was elected sheriff 
of Blair County. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal 
church, having united with this body in early manhood. Major 
Bobb married Matilda Mattern, in 1847, and three sons were 
born to them: William M., Edward G. and James S.
     E. G. Bobb was small when his parents located at 
Martinsburg. He attended the public schools there and later, 
Jefferson College, at Canonsburg, Pa. He left school to 
enter the shipping department of what is now the D. M. Bare 
Paper Company, at Roaring Spring, and has advanced step by 
step until he became manager, in 1898, in the meanwhile 
having acquired partial proprietorship. He has a number of 
additional business interests, being president of the 
Roaring Spring Blank Book Company and vice president of the 
Roaring Spring Bank, in which he is also a director.
     Mr. Bobb married Miss Clara S. Bare, who is a daughter 
of Hon. D. M. Bare, of Roaring Spring, and they have had two 
sons, Ralph D. and Chester, the former of whom is deceased. 
Mr. Bobb is a Republican in his political views but has no 
desire for public office. Neither is he identified with 
organizations outside of the business world, but possesses 
the characteristic American devotion to home life and to 
quiet recreations.

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