Montgomery County PA Archives Biographies.....Bertolet, Ezra September 18, 1827 - 
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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

EZRA BERTOLET was born In Frederick township, Montgomery 
county, Pennsylvania, September 18, 1827. He was educated 
there in the public schools, and in a private school in 
Norristown. On leaving school he engaged in the iron 
business, with a view to mastering its details, and 
conducted it in different lines for more than forty years. 
At the present time he is living a retired life, being 
interested only in the sand filtering business in 
Philadelphia. He left Montgomery county on engaging in the 
iron business, and has since lived in Philadelphia. He 
resides in Kensington, where he has a pleasant home at No. 
1232 Marlborough street.

Mr. Bertolet married, March 18, 1856, Miss Elena Knipe, 
daughter of Conard Knipe, of Philadelphia. They have had the 
following children: Canard, deceased; Charles E., deceased; 
William H. and Ira D. In politics Mr. Bertolet is a strong 
Republican, although he has never held office In religious 
faith they adhere to the United Evangelical church. He is a 
man of excellent judgment, and has prospered in all his 
undertakings.

The Bertolet family are one of the oldest in eastern 
Pennsylvania. Their ancestor was Jean Bertolet, who came to 
Pennsylvania in 1726, and became the ancestor of a numerous 
and influential body of descendants.

Daniel Bertolet (father) was the youngest son of Samuel and 
Elizabeth Bertolet, was born April 20, 1796, and died 
February 20, 1868. He married Catharine Gabel, born 1803, 
and died in 1887. Their children were: Elizabeth, married 
Elias Fagley; Esther, married Jacob Bliem; John, married 
Elizabeth Borneman; Ezra, subject of this sketch; Susanna, 
married H. B. Nace; Daniel, married Eleanor Dunn; Abraham, 
married Amanda Moore; Benjamin, married Amelia Heberling; 
Maria, married Michael Diehl; Samuel, married Mary Barndt, 
and second wife, Mary Borneman; Abner, married Maggie 
Davidson.


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