Roland Curtain Boileau    

R. C. BOILEAU, retired merchant. Meadville, was born in Centre County, Penn., December 27, 1810; son of Daniel and Mary (Robinson) Boileau, natives of this State, of French and Irish descent. Daniel was Quartermaster-General in the Revolutionary war. Our subject, the seventh in a family of eight children, grew up in the same town with Gov. Curtin and they were chums together in boyhood. He acquired his education in his native county, and early in life learned the jeweler and watchmaker trade. In 1831 Mr. Boileau came to Meadville, and embarked in the jewelry business, which he carried on for thirty years; was also in the dry goods business for a number of years. He dealt in real estate extensively, and built several business blocks. He has been financially successful, and has accumulated a handsome property. He was married, in 1834, to Harriet W., daughter of Col. Shryock, a native of Hagerstown, Md., and to this union were born nine children, eight attaining maturity: Elizabeth, married G. P. Hosmer, in Lockport, N.Y.; Maria, married to H. H. Thompson, in Bath, N.Y.; Nathaniel, deceased; Polo, in Illinois; Roland C. Jr., in Meadville, Ellen, widow, married to M. D. Newman, in Milford., Penn.: Harriet. married to R. Bard, Ravenna, Ohio; Emma, married to J. H. Culbertson, in Meadville; Marion, youngest daughter, unmarried, being with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Boileau are members of the First Baptist Church in which he has been a Deacon for forty years. He never led a political life.

History of Crawford County, Pennsylvania: containing a history of the county, its townships, towns, villages, schools, churches, industries, etc., portraits of early settlers and prominent men, biographies, history of Pennsylvania, statistical and miscellaneous matter, Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co., 1885, page 714-715 View image of this page of the book on line at ancestry.com.  Free access  More Crawford County History Books  Search Hundreds of 1880s-1890s Pennsylvania County History Books for biographies and historical information on your ancestors.  View the book page images on line and print them out for your genealogy file!  Free Access to the old history books - plus birth & death records, census images and ALL other records at ancestry.com

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