Montgomery County PA Archives Biographies.....Bertolet, Ira D. January 8, 1865 - 
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Source: Biographical Annals of Montgomery County Pennsylvania, T. S. Benham & Company and the Lewis Publishing Company, 1904
Author: Ellwood Roberts, Editor

IRA D. BERTOLET, of Philadelphia, a member of the well known 
Bertolet family who are descended from Jean and Susanna 
Bertolet, French Huguenots who came to this country in 1726 
and settled in Oley township, Berks county, is engaged in 
the importation of aniline dyes, chemicals, etc. He is a son 
of Ezra Bertolet, whose wife was Eleana Knipe. He was born 
January 8, 1865.

Mr. Bertolet was born at Weissport, Carbon county, 
Pennsylvania, but his parents removed to Philadelphia when 
he was a child, and he obtained his education in the public 
schools of that city. 
 
On relinquishing school studies be learned the trade of a 
dyer. After working at the trade about five years he engaged 
with the firm of Andreykovics & Dunk as a salesman of 
aniline dyes. He was very successful, and continued in this 
capacity from 1887 until 1898, when he became a member of 
the firm, and has since been identified with it.

Mr. Bertolet married, in 1889, Miss Johanna Kinkley, 
daughter of John Kinkley. The couple have two children: 
Marion and Ira D., Jr. In politics Mr. Bertolet is a 
Republican. He is a member of the Masonic order. He and his 
family attend the United Evangelical church.

Jean Bertolet had five children born in the city of Berne, 
Switzerland, whence they emigrated to America- Abraham, 
Maria, John, Esther and Susanna; and one, Frederick, born in 
America. The children of Abraham were Daniel, Samuel, Nary, 
John, Elizabeth and Esther. Daniel Bertolet, youngest son of 
Samuel, was born April 20, 1716, and died February 28, 1868. 
He married Catharine Gabel, of an old Berks county family. 
She was born in 1803, and died in 1887. 

Their children: Elizabeth, married Elias Fagley; Esther, 
married Jacob Bliem; John, married Elizabeth Borneman; Ezra 
(father); Susanna, married H. B. Nace; Daniel, married 
Eleanor Dunn; Abraham, married Amanda Moore; Benjamin, 
married Amelia Heberling (see his sketch elsewhere in this 
work); Maria, married Michael Diehl; Samuel, married Mary 
Barndt, and (second wife) Mary Bornemen; Abner, married 
Maggie Davidson. (Much information in reference to the early 
history of the family is given in the sketch of Benjamin 
Bertolet.)

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