Blair County PA Archives Biographies.....Bice, Blair Rodkey June 13, 1889 - 
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Source: History of Blair County, PA, Vol. II, 1931
Author: Tarring Davis

  BLAIR RODKEY BICE, merchant of Martinsburg, was born in Frankstown Township, 
Blair County, June 13, 1889, a son of John F. and Annie (Rodkey) Bice, the 
mother being a daughter of Henry Rodkey, pioneer merchant of Frankstown, Pa.  
John F. Bice engaged in farming throughout his active life, his death occurring 
in 1929, and that of his wife in 1898.  Blair Rodkey Bice received a
public school education and for eight years thereafter clerked in the store of 
John Law and Thomas Lawley, early clothing house of Hollidaysburg.  For a few 
years, he worked at the Glessner Department Store, and in 1915, he opened a 
general store at Blairfour, Blair County, and operated that enterprise until 
October, 1929.  In 1920, he opened a store at Martinsburg and has since 
conducted that enterprise with great success, employing four persons.  The store 
at Blairfour was removed in 1929 to Millerstown, where it is now operated under 
the firm style of Bice & Swartz by Mr. Swartz.  Mr. Bice takes a deep interest 
in the affairs of the community and was one of the organizers of the Martinsburg 
Boosters' Association.  He is serving at the present time as a member of the 
school board.  He is president of the board of trustees of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church, chairman of the Troop Committee of the Boys Scouts, and a 
member of the Masonic fraternity, and Odd Fellows.  In 1913, Mr. Bice took for 
his wife Bertha Miller, of Frankstown Township, and they have two sons, Blair 
R., Jr., a graduate of the Martinsburg High School, and John, who is attending 
school.

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