Blair County PA Archives Biographies.....Bolger, Levi September 27, 1834 - 
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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

LEVI BOLGER, senior member of the firm of Bolger, Grafius & Co., proprietors
and operators of the Martinsburg Planing Mill, doing an extensive manufacturing 
business here, has spent his entire life at Martinsburg, where he was born 
September 27, 1834. His parents were David and Nancy (Skyles) Bolger.
     David Bolger was born in Blair County, Pa., his father having been a
pioneer in Bedford County. David Bolger died in 1857, but for many years he
had been a well known contractor and builder and also was in the undertaking
business at Martinsburg.
     Levi Bolger attended the public schools at Martinsburg in early boyhood
but he was not more than thirteen years of age when he began to learn the
carpenter's trade and under his father's instruction learned cabinetmaking,
and carpenter work, and later went into contracting for himself. Still later
he became interested with other practical business men in the Martinsburg
Planing Mill, a well equipped (sic) plant with up-to-date machinery, the
output of which includes sash, doors, mouldings, balusters, stair rail,
blinds, etc., lath, pickets and shingles. The company also deals in all kinds
of rough lumber and building material. Prospects for a heavy future trade are
excellent and the business is in a flourishing condition.
     In November, 1855, Mr. Bolger was married to Miss Mary E. May, who was
born in Bedford County, Pa., a daughter of John and Magdalena May, and six
children were born to them, namely: Anna M., who lives at Martinsburg; Nancy
J., who is the wife of George W. Geist, of the firm of Bolger, Grafius & Co.;
Ida C., who is the wife of William H. Oelig, of Williamsburg, Pa.; William M.,
who is a well established dentist at Martinsburg; Ella, who is the wife of W.
Boyd Morrow, a coal merchant at Chippensburg; and J. Colvin, who is a
Lutheran minister at Martinsburg.
     In politics Mr. Bolger is a Republican and he has been an active
citizen, serving on the borough council and also on the school board. He is a
prominent Odd Fellow, belonging to the minor branch and to the Encampment,
being a charter member of the latter at Martinsburg, and is also a charter
member of the Knights of the Golden Eagle. He is a member of the Reformed
church, in which he has served officially at times. He is numbered with
Martinsburg's most reliable men and representative citizens.

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