Blair County PA Archives Biographies.....Book, L. L. September 19, 1844 - 
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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

L. L. BOOK, who has been a resident of Blair County, Pa., since 1875, is one
of the foremost citizens of Eldorado, and is extensively engaged in
gardening. He was born in Lancaster County, Pa., September 19, 1844, and is a
son of George and Harriet (Geist) Book, who both spent their entire lives in
Lancaster County.
     L. L. Book was reared and educated in his native county, and was
graduated from Millersville Normal school, receiving a diploma of the first
class. He then engaged in teaching and followed that profession many years in
Allegheny, Carbon and Lancaster Counties, and after coming to Altoona in 1875
he taught eight years in the high school of that city. He then located at
Eldorado with the idea of fruit growing, but did not carry out the plan,
engaging instead in gardening at which he has been so successful. He began
this business in a small way in the eighties, and as his business grew he
erected greenhouses, now having six, and raising vegetables exclusively.
Lettuce growing has been his specialty and in former years he shipped to
Philadelphia and other cities, but now deals exclusively with the wholesale
houses of Altoona, and has two and sometimes three wagons make the haul to
the market three times a week.
     Mr. Book was married in 1878 to Kate G. Witmer, of Lancaster County, and
they have two sons, Harry W. and Ross A.  Mr. and Mrs. Book are members of the
Broad Avenue Presbyterian Church of Altoona. He is politically a Republican.

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