Blair County PA Archives Biographies.....Bohn, Charles W. September 11, 1859 - January 4, 1920
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Source: History of Blair County, PA, Vol. II, 1931
Author: Tarring Davis

  CHARLES W. BOHN, deceased, was a member of a prominent family who have been 
identified with progressive movements in the Cumberland Valley since the 
Colonial period.  He was born at Chambersburg on September 11, 1859, a son of 
Valentine Bohn, a farmer, and Henrietta (Wolf) Bohn.  Valentine Bohn served in 
the Union Army during the Civil War, contracted tuberculosis, and died before 
peace was declared.  Charles W. Bohn was educated in the government school 
established for the children of United States soldiers and sailors.  He obtained 
a position with the Pennsylvania Railroad Company as a boy, and was first 
employed in the cabinet shop.  There he worked for four years, or until he was 
transferred to the road as brakeman.  He advanced rapidly, and after eight years 
was fireman, and at the end of a similar period became passenger engineer on the 
Middle Division.  For fifteen years he served the company faithfully as an 
engineer, undertaking great responsibilities, and was accidentally killed in the 
Altoona yards by a shifter on January 4, 1920.  His death stunned his family to 
whom he had always been devoted, and saddened the community in which he had made 
many friends.  Mr. Bohn was a member of the United Brethren Church and the other 
members of his family are Roman Catholics.  He was affiliated with the Knights 
of Pythias and the Pennsylvania Railroad Relief Association.  He married Miss 
Jessie A. McCune, at Altoona, in September, 1882.  She was a daughter of John 
McCune, an employee of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, and Mary (Gallagher) 
McCune, the latter of Newry, this county.  They became the parents of the 
following children: May G., who married J. P. Reading, of the Pennsylvania 
Railroad Company; Charles W., actively connected with the city water department 
in Altoona; James E., engaged in the automobile business at Detroit, Michigan; 
Walter H., with the Pennsylvania Railroad Company; Ruth, now Mrs. Van E. Mercer, 
whose husband is employed by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company; and Margaret, 
deceased. Mrs. Bohn is a resident of Altoona, at 154 14th Street.

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