Clearfield County PA Archives - Obituaries: Bogner, Louis, 08 Dec 1937
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The Pittsburgh Press, 04 Nov 1936
BUCHANAN VOTER MARKS "X" FOR ROOSEVELT
Being 100 years old didn't keep Lewis Bogner from casting his
vote at Pitcairn yesterday. He is shown here as he depositied his
ballot in the second voting district. Since he cast his first vote
for James Buchanan, Lewis Bogner has been an ardent Democrat - he
voted for Roosevelt in '32 and hopes to vote again in '40. Mr. Bogner
lives at 512 Broadway, Pitcairn.
(transcriber note - there is a photo of Mr. Bogner placing his ballot
in the box included with this item)
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The Pittsburgh Press, 08 Dec 1937
NEARLY CENTARIAN, PITCAIRN MAN DIES
Just two weeks short of six months after he turned the century
Mark, Louis H. Bogner died today in the home of his son, Orrin, in
Pitcairn.
He died unexpectedly as he was arising for breakfast, after
only a short illness.
Proud of the fact that he had attended Sunday School more than
90 years of his life, Mr. Bogner also looked back upon his service as
a hospital attendant during the Civil War and a consistent lifelong
record of voting Democratic. He voted first for President Buchanan,
and last November, when he voted a second time for President
Roosevelt, expressed the hope he would live to cast a third ballot
for him.
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Pittsburgh Sun Telegraph, Wednesday, 08 Dec 1937
PITCAIRN MAN DIES AT 100, SHOOK HANDS OF LINCOLN
Louis H. Bogner, who lived to be 100 years old, died this morning
in the home of his son, Orrin, in Pitcairn.
Mr. Bogner, who received a letter from President Roosevelt on his
birthday, June 22, had been ill five days.
His son and nurse, Mrs. G. Hancock, said death came peacefully at
8:15 a.m. - the time he ordinarily arose for his oatmeal.
On his birthday he had said: "If people would eat oatmeal and
cornmeal as much as I do, then they would live as long as I have."
Born in Red Hill, Dauphin County, June 22, 1837, Mr. Bogner
lived to see many changes in the sovial, economic and industrial
life of America. He came to Pitcairn many years ago, and on his
hundreth birthday his closest friends gave him a party.
When he was a young man, Bogner walked eight miles into Harrisburg
from his home and shook hands with President Abraham Lincoln on the
steps of the Capitol.
Lincoln had stopped in Harrisburg en route to the dedication of
the Gettysburg Battlefield where he made his famous address.
For 63 years Mr. Bogner lived in Allport, Clearfield County. He
gave the land on which the Allport Methodist Church stands, and for
63 years was the secretary of its Sunday school.
For 30 years he was a Justice of the Peace, was always a Democrat
and voted for President Roosevelt.
When the blind pension law became effective last August he was
the oldest person in the state to receive $30 a month.
When he was 100, President Roosevelt wrote Mr. Bogner : "I desire
to assure you of my appreciation of your confidence in my personal
leadership."
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Thursday, 09 Dec 1937
TWO WHO KNEW CIVIL WAR DIE WITHIN 20 MINUTES
Centenian Who Shook Lincoln's Hand,
Veteran of Battlefields Pass Away
Two Pittsburgh distict men whose years carried their memories back
to the Civil war died 20 minutes apart yesterday morning. One was 100
years old and had felt the handclasp of Abraham Lincoln; the other, nine
years his junior, had fought for the Emancipator's cause.
The Centarian, Louis H. Bogner, was the first to pass - peacefully,
at 8:15 a.m., after a five day illness - in the home of his son, Orrin,
in Pitcairn.
When John W. Williams succumbed to the burden of 91 years and long
failing health at his home, 104 Grant avenue, Etna, the "last man"
of General George A. Custer Post No. 38, Grand Army of the Republic,
was gone.
The most cherished token of a gala birthday party last June 22 was
a congratulatory message from President Roosevelt who assured him of "my
appreciation of your confidence in my personal leadership."
Many great changes in America's social, economic and industrial life
has been witnessed by Bogner - a successful business man before his retirement
many years ago - in the interlude between that day and the November day
in 1863, when he shook Lincoln's hand.
A young man then, he had walked eight miles from his home to Harrisburg
to greet Lincoln on the steps of the capitol when the president stopped
there en route to deliver his famous address at the dedication of the
Gettysburg Battlefield.
Born in Red Hill, Dauphin county, in 1837, Bogner came to Pitcairn
many years ago. For 63 years previously he lived in Allport, Clearfield
county, where he was in the lumber business and served as justice of the
peace and as secretary of the Sunday school of the Allprt Methodist Church,
which now stands on land he gave.
Born in Pittsburgh, November 26, 1845, but living in Etna since the
age of two, Williams for many years was a department head in the Etna
and Kittanning mills of the Spang-Chalfant Company. He was also superintendent
of the Mount Royal Cemetery. For 21 years, until his retirement six years ago,
he was tipstaff in the offices of Judges Thomas J. Ford and William H. McNaugher.
A member of the Fifth Pennsylvania Volunteer Heavy Artillery, Williams
was a comander of the Etna G. A. R. post of which he was the sole survivor.
He was a member of Zaradatha Lodge, No. 448, F. and A. M.; the Pennsylvania
Consistory, and Syria Temple.
He leaves two daughters, Mrs. Johnston C. Armstrong of Etna and Mrs. W. H.
Kekiley of Tulsa, Okla.
After military services Saturday afternoon by the Etna Ex-Service Club, burial
will be in the Mount Royal Cemetery.
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Pittsburgh Sun Telegraph, Thursday, 09 Dec 1937
PITCAIRN TO PAY TRIBUTE AT RITES FOR MAN, 100
Pitcairn tonight will pasy final tribute to its oldest citizen - 100-year-old
Louis H. Bogner, who died yesterday.
Funeral services will be held at the home of his son, Orrin, 510 Broadway,
Pitcairn, at 7 p.m. in charge of the Rev. Lawrence E. Stahl, of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, Pitcairn, who served Mr. Bogner communion on his one hundreth birthday June 22.
Mr. Bogner will be buried in Allport, Clearfield County, where he lived 63 years,
gave the land on which the Methodist Church there stands, and where he was the church's
Sunday School secretary 63 years.
Mr. Bogner shook hands with President Abraham Lincoln in Harrisburg while Lincoln
was en route to Gettysburg to dedicate the Gettysburg battlefield.
He did not serve in the Civil War, but when his two brothers were wounded in
action he went to Fort Schuyler to nurse them.