Biographical Sketches, Venango Township, Page 1113 DAVID M. BOLE
DAVID M. BOLE, farmer, P.O. Venango, was born in Venango Township, this county, April 14, 1813, son of Henry and Lydia (Adams) Bole. Henry Bole was a native of Ireland and worked his passage to America about 1795, landing in Philadelphia. In 1797 he located on French Creek, in Hayfield Township, this county, and later removed to Venango Township. He was married, January 15, 1807, to Lydia, daughter of David M. Adams, who settled in what is now Cambridge Township, previous to 1800, on the farm now owned by George Doctor. By this marriage there were seven children: John, married to Margaret Gilmore; Margaret, deceased wife of George Mead; David M.; William, married for his first wife, to Matilda Blair-for his second, to Ellen Mead; Mary A. (deceased), Henry (deceased), Martha, wife of Hon. Andrew Fullerton, of Conneautville, Penn. David M., our subject, was married November 24, 1836, to Mary D., daughter of Robert and Sarah (Wykoff) Clark, of Woodcock Township, this county, by whom he has had ten children: William R., an attorney at Meadville, Penn., marred to Martha Pendleton, of Cambridge; Robert C., lost in the seven days’ fight before Richmond during the late war; Henry M., deceased; David M., Jr., married to Alice Booth, they reside in Venango Township, this county; Andrew F., an attorney at Corry, Erie Co., Penn., married to Margaret Stranahan; Richard W., deceased; Clark C., married to Alta Kingsley, of Venango Township, this county; John D., Amanda and Eva. Mr. Bole, who resides on part of the old homestead settled by his father, was elected to the Pennsylvania State Legislature in 1848-49, and was defeated for the same office in 1850-51. He has been Justice of the Peace for his township five years, and held many other minor offices. In politics he has always been a stanch Democrat. He and his wife have been members of the Presbyterian Church upward of fifty years.
Biographical Sketches, Venango Township, Page 1113 DAVID M. BOLE
DAVID M. BOLE, farmer, P.O. Venango, was born in Venango Township, this county, April 14, 1813, son of Henry and Lydia (Adams) Bole. Henry Bole was a native of Ireland and worked his passage to America about 1795, landing in Philadelphia. In 1797 he located on French Creek, in Hayfield Township, this county, and later removed to Venango Township. He was married, January 15, 1807, to Lydia, daughter of David M. Adams, who settled in what is now Cambridge Township, previous to 1800, on the farm now owned by George Doctor. By this marriage there were seven children: John, married to Margaret Gilmore; Margaret, deceased wife of George Mead; David M.; William, married for his first wife, to Matilda Blair-for his second, to Ellen Mead; Mary A. (deceased), Henry (deceased), Martha, wife of Hon. Andrew Fullerton, of Conneautville, Penn. David M., our subject, was married November 24, 1836, to Mary D., daughter of Robert and Sarah (Wykoff) Clark, of Woodcock Township, this county, by whom he has had ten children: William R., an attorney at Meadville, Penn., marred to Martha Pendleton, of Cambridge; Robert C., lost in the seven days’ fight before Richmond during the late war; Henry M., deceased; David M., Jr., married to Alice Booth, they reside in Venango Township, this county; Andrew F., an attorney at Corry, Erie Co., Penn., married to Margaret Stranahan; Richard W., deceased; Clark C., married to Alta Kingsley, of Venango Township, this county; John D., Amanda and Eva. Mr. Bole, who resides on part of the old homestead settled by his father, was elected to the Pennsylvania State Legislature in 1848-49, and was defeated for the same office in 1850-51. He has been Justice of the Peace for his township five years, and held many other minor offices. In politics he has always been a stanch Democrat. He and his wife have been members of the Presbyterian Church upward of fifty years.
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