Blair County PA Archives Biographies.....Blose MD, Joseph U. October 3, 1856 - ????
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Source: Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Blair Co, PA: Philadelphia, 1892.
Author: Samuel T. Wiley

JOSEPH U. BLOSE, M. D.,
of Altoona, a physician who stands well in his profession for ability and
skill, is a son of William and Elizabeth (Shaw) Blose, and was born in North
Mahoning township, Indiana county, Pennsylvania, October 3, 1856.  His
paternal grandfather, Michael Blose, was a native of Germany, and during the
first quarter of the present century settled in Westmoreland county, where he
remained but a short time.  He then removed to Armstrong county, where he
died.  He was a miller by trade, and married Sarah Wangaman.  One of the sons
born to him in his Armstrong county home was William Blose, father of Dr.
Blose.  William Blose, in 1850, removed to North Mahoning township, in the
adjoining county of Indiana, where he has resided ever since.  He owns a good
farm, is a member of the Presbyterian church, and in politics has been a
republican since the disruption of the Whig party.  Near the close of the
late civil war he enlisted in Co. B, 67th Pennsylvania infantry, and served
for six month, at the end of which time he was honorably discharged from the
Federal service.  He was born January 21, 1825, and married Elizabeth Shaw,
who is a native of Ireland, and whose father, Thomas Shaw, came from County
Down, Ireland, to Armstrong county, where he died.  Mr. and Mrs. Blose have
reared a family of ten children, seven sons and three daughters:  Calvin, who
learned the trade of carpenter, which he is now following at Punxsutawny, this
State; Rev. Daniel A., who graduated from Lewisburg university, too the
theological course of Auburn seminary, and is now pastor at the Presbyterian
church at Beardstown, Illinois; Dr. Joseph U.; William T., who learned the
trade of carpenter, and is now a resident of Big Run, Jefferson county, where
he has been engaged for some time in the manufacture of chairs and building
supplies; Prof. James Miles, a graduate of Oberlin university, of Oberlin,
Ohio, who is now director of music in the Waynesburg Conservatory of music,
and has lately been elected to a high position in a leading musical
institution of the United States; Benjamin F., who learned telegraphy, and is
now an operator at Glasgow, Montana; Sarah, wife of Phineas Work, a well-to-do
and comfortably situated farmer of West Mahoning township, Indiana county;
Jennie, at home with her parents; and Ella, wife of Charles Perritt, foreman
of the boiler works of the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chicago Railroad Company,
at Emsworth, Allegheny county.
     Joseph U. Blose grew to manhood on his father's farm, and after
receiving his elementary education in the common schools of his native
township, took a classical course at Glade Run academy, of Armstrong
county.  Leaving school he became a medical student in the office of Dr. John
W. Morrow, of Marchand, that county, who was a member of the Pennsylvania
legislature in 1891 and 1892.  After completing his required course of
reading he entered Columbus Medical college, of Columbus, Ohio, from which
institution he was graduated on February 26, 1880.  Late in the spring of
that year he opened an office at Pine Flats, Pennsylvania, where he practiced
until January, 1882, when he went to Cherry Tree, Indiana county, at which
place he remained four years.  On November 15, 1886, he came to Altoona,
where he has been engaged ever since in the active and successful practice of
his profession.  He is well read, pleasant and courteous as a gentleman, and
well liked as a citizen.
     In 1875 Doctor Blose was united in marriage with Lillie T. C., daughter
of the late Gen. Samuel E. Grown, who entered the civil war as a subordinate
officer, and by successive promotions reached the rank of
brigadier-general.  To Dr. and Mrs. Blose have been born three children: 
Edith Edna, born July 26, 1877; Tina Mary, born June 25, 1882; and Ethel,
born April 10, 1891.
     Doctor Blose has always been a republican in politics, and is at the
present time a member of the city board of health and of the staff of the
Altoona hospital.  He is also a member of the Altoona Academy of medicine and
surgery, the Blair County Medical society and the Medical society of the State
of Pennsylvania.  While Doctor Blose has always been a close student in the
line of his professional work, yet he keeps well informed upon the current
events of the day, and the important movements in the different professions.

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Originally submitted 2001. Transcribed by Donna Thomas

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