Blair County PA Archives Biographies.....Boyer, Calvin A. October 6, 1869 - 
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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

CALVIN A. BOYER, sole proprietor of the Forge Mill, situated near Roaring
Spring, Pa., dealing in spring wheat and pastry flour, feed, and grain of all
kinds and making a specialty of custom grinding, conducts his business under
the style of the Forge Milling Company. He was born in Bedford County, Pa.,
October 6, 1869, and is a son of David M., and Sarah (Croyle) Boyer. David M.
Boyer is a well known and highly respected retired farmer of Bedford County.
     Calvin A. Boyer grew to manhood on the home farm and obtained his
education in the Bedford County schools. When he was twenty-one years of age
he started out for himself, his first occupations being saw-milling and
threshing and for eight years he was so engaged in Bedford and Blair
Counties, after which he became a farmer near Roaring Spring. In March, 1908,
he went into the milling business and has made the Forge Mill a very valuable
property, equipping it with first class machinery and turning out only high
grade products. He is numbered with the able business men of this section,
having additional interests to his mill industry.
     Mr. Boyer married Miss Mary Bush, a daughter of the late John Bush, of
Taylor Township, Blair County, Pa. They have an adopted son, Harry B. Boyer.
Mr. and Mrs. Boyer are members of the Reformed church. He is a Democrat in
politics and is serving in the office of constable of Taylor Township. While
still residing in Bedford County he filled many township offices, having
always been an active citizen. He is a member of the P.O.S. of A., at Roaring
Spring, of the Order of Moose at Altoona, and belongs to the Masonic Lodge at
Roaring Spring.

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