Fayette County PA Archives Biographies.....Boley, Hugh Thompson July 14, 1845 - ????
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Source: Gresham and Wiley, 1889: Biographical & Portrait Cyclopedia, Fayette Co, PA, pg 249
Author: John H. Gresham & Samuel T. Wiley

    Hugh Thompson Boley is a merchant at Bridgeport, Fayette 
county, Penna, and is a son of Daniel Boley and Ruth 
Thompson Boley.  His father was born and raised in Allegheny 
county, Penna, and was a pilot on the Ohio and Mississippi 
rivers.  His home was at Sewickley, Allegheny county, where 
he died in 1853 at the age of forty seven.  He was a 
democrat.  Mrs Boley was born and reared in Washington 
county, Penna, and died at Pekin, Illinois in 1855 at the 
age of seventy eight years.  Alexander is engaged in the ice 
business and has been for the past twenty five years at 
Pekin.  (?)
    Hugh Thompson Boley was born at Sewickley, July 14, 
1845, where he was reared till the age of fourteen years.  
At the age of fourteen he went on the river, at the age of 
sixteen was acting as mate on the Ohio and Mississippi 
rivers, and continued on the river in this capacity till 
1874.  He was in the government service throughout the 
entire war, was on the steamer Henry Clay on April 14, 1862, 
when she ran the blockade at Vicksburg and was sunk by the 
batteries of the city.
    In 1874 he came west to Brownsville, and married Miss 
Belle Weaver, a daughter of Joseph Weaver of the same place. 
 In the same year he formed a partnership with his 
father-in-law, the firm being named Weaver and Boley, and 
engaged in the general mercantile business at Bridgeport.  
They have been very successful in building up a large trade 
and in doing good business.  Mr Weaver died the 13th of 
February, 1889, at the age of seventy years.  The business 
is still carried on in the old firm name.  The establishment 
carries a nice stock of goods.
    Mr Boley resides in West Brownsville while he carries on 
business at Bridgeport.  He is a warm democrat and has 
served several times as a member of the council, and as 
judge of the elections.  He has no children.

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