Blair County PA Archives Biographies.....Bartley, Calvin B. April 4, 1832 - ????
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Source: Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Blair Co, PA: Philadelphia, 1892.
Author: Samuel T. Wiley

CALVIN B. BARTLEY,
a prominent and substantial merchant, and one of the self-made men of 
Altoona, is a son of Cornelius and Margaret (Castner) Bartley, and was 
born in Juniata county, Pennsylvania, April 4, 1832.  Cornelius Bartley, 
whose birthday was in the initial year of the present century, was a 
native of central Pennsylvania.  He was of German descent, and settled, 
at an early age, in Juniata county, where he followed his trade of 
carpenter until 1840, when he engaged in farming.  He met with fair 
success in agricultural pursuits, and died in 1848, when in the 
forty-eighth year of his age.  He was an old-time democrat, and a strict 
member of the Evangelical Lutheran church, and married Margaret Castner, 
a native of Juniata county, who preceded him to the tomb by three years. 
She died in 1845, when in the forth-third year of her age.
   Calvin B. Bartley was reared on a farm, received his education in the
common schools, and at seventeen years of age, became an apprentice to learn
the trade of carpenter.  When his term of apprenticeship was ended, he
engaged in carpentering and contracting, which he followed successfully, at
various places in Juniata county, until 1880, but worked principally at
Mifflintown.  In the last named year he came to Altoona, where, in December,
1891, he opened his present general mercantile house and heavily-stocked feed
store.  His establishment is a brick structure, on the corner of Third avenue
and Fourth street, which he erected in the fall of 1891.  He carries choice
lines of general merchandise, from dry goods down to groceries, and keeps
constantly on hand large quantities of all kinds of feed.  The quality of his
goods, with reasonable prices and courteous attention, has won him patronage,
and he is fast building up an extensive and excellent trade in the city, as
well as securing many patrons from the surrounding country.
   On November 24, 1859, he married Sarah A. Duffield, daughter of Thomas
Duffield, of Perry county.  Mr. And Mrs. Bartley have nine children, four
sons and five daughters: Charles S., Thomas B., Harry S., U. S. Grant
(resident of Pittsburg), Annie, wife of John C. Saylor, of Altoona; Mary A.,
married to Levi H. Goshen, of Altoona; Laura, wife of William Lauver, of
Juniata county; Jennie M., married to Frank S. Moore, of Altoona; and
Lottie.  Three of his sons are residents of Altoona, where they are engaged
in contracting and building.
   Calvin B. Bartley is a republican, and a member of the Methodist Episcopal
church of Altoona, and Mifflintown Lodge, No. 131, Independent Order of Odd
Fellows.  He owns some very valuable real estate, has erected three very fine
buildings at his place of business, and some years ago built the largest and
most complete barn to be found to-day in Juniata county.  He still follows
contracting, to some extent, and has erected quite a number of substantial,
as well as some very fine buildings, since embarking in the general
mercantile business.  Mr. Bartley is a pleasant and approachable gentleman,
and has achieved success by his own energy and industry.

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