Blair County PA Archives Biographies.....Boyles, Henry A. January 8, 1832 - ????
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Source: Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Blair Co, PA: Philadelphia, 1892.
Author: Samuel T. Wiley

HENRY A. BOYLES, 
a highly respected resident successful merchant and the efficient postmaster
of the village of Juniata, whose post office was established by the name of
Kipple on account of Juniata, Blair County is a son of John and Hannah
(Andrews) Boyles and was born in what is now Logan township, Blair County
Pennsylvania January 8, 1832.  The Boyles are of English extraction and Mr.
Boyles paternal grandfather, Henry Boyles was a life-long resident of Blair
county where he died in 1833 aged sixty-eight years.  He was a hard working
man who married and reared a family of children one of whom John Boyles
(father) was born in 1809 in what is now Logan township.  Like his father
before him he was a hard working man and died March 15, 1889 when in the
seventy-eighth year of his age.  He was an early supporter of the principles
of the Republican party and married Hannah Andrews who was born in the state
of Maryland in the year 1817 and passed away from earth at her home in Logan
township on October 20, 1885.  Mr. and Mrs. Boyles were the parents of six
children five sons and one daughter.
     Henry A. Boyles passed his boyhood days in Logan township received his
education in the early common schools of the Keystone Commonwealth and
learned the trade of carpenter which he followed at various placed in the
county until 1868, when he was employed as a carpenter in the shops of the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company in Altoona.  At the end of twenty years
continuous labor at his trade in the railroad shops he gave up carpentering
to engage in the general mercantile business at thrifty little village of
Juniata (post office Kipple) which is at present an eastern suburb of the
city of Altoona.  Mr. Boyles established the second store of Juniata enjoys a
good patronage and he has prospered in his business.  He owns some valuable
property and has a very comfortable home at Juniata.  He has been from
childhood a stanch republican always yields an earnest support to his party
and in February, 1890 was appointed by President Benjamin Harrison as
postmaster at Kipple.  He is a deacon of the Evangelical Lutheran church, an
active and enterprising business man and a highly esteemed citizen of the
progressive village of Juniata.
     In 1855 Henry A. Boyles was united in marriage with Susan Morris,
daughter of William Morris of Centre county.  Mr. and Mrs. Boyles have nine
children four sons and five daughters; Blair N., Harry, John C., William B.,
Mary, Jessie, Catherine, Minnie and Gertrude.

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