{"id":1660,"date":"2014-07-06T15:43:31","date_gmt":"2014-07-06T20:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/?page_id=1660"},"modified":"2017-05-07T16:35:27","modified_gmt":"2017-05-07T21:35:27","slug":"jacob-wellington-bogert-1848","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/genealogy\/families\/bogert\/jacob-wellington-bogert-1848\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacob Wellington Bogert (1848-1915)"},"content":{"rendered":"

JACOB WELLINGTON BOGERT, of Wilkes-Barre, sixth child of Samuel and Elizabeth (Ranton) Bogert, was born in Columbus, September 29, 1848. He was educated in the public schools and New Columbus Academy, where he graduated in 1868. He then learned the trade of blacksmith, which for a number of years he followed at Dallas. For several years prior to June, 1903, he was pressman for the Wilkes-Barre Leader, and since that date has been an attache of the Prudential Insurance Company. He is a member of the Knights of Malta, Prince of Peace Commandery No. 69, and is deputy grand commander of the Luzerne County District. He is a member of the Royal Arcanum, No. 396, Wilkes-Barre, and Junior Order of United American Mechanics, Columbia Council, No. 43. He is a Democrat in politics. <\/p>\n

He married, at Shickshinny, Pennsylvania, February 20, 1876, Emma Alice Seward, of Harveyville, who was a teacher in the public schools of Luzerne county, daughter of Levi and Mary (Smith) Seward, of Huntington Township. Mrs. Bogert was the organizer of the Dames of Malta, No. 20, Wilkes-Barre.and is a member of Conyngham Relief Corps, No. 37; the Women’s Christian Temperance Union, and was one of the first female school directors to serve in New Columbus, Luzerne county, and was the secretary of the school board for two and one-half years. <\/p>\n

Nine children were born to Jacob W. and Emma Alice (Seward) Bogert: 1. Stanley, who is in charge of the Scripps-McRae Press Association at Cleveland, Ohio. He represented his employers on the special car of Vice-President Fairbanks on his electioneering tour across the continent in 1904. 2. Daisy P., graduated as a trained nurse at the Wilkes-Barre City Hospital; afterwards she married Frederick W. Wachterhouser, and they are the parents of one child, Pauline; they reside in Staten Island, New York. 3. J. Leslie. 4. Lawrence S. 5. Frances Ruth, died February 13, 1892. 6. May E. 7. Joseph K. 8. Paul J. 9. Earl F. Mr. Bogert attends the Presbyterian church, of which his wife and family are members. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

(From the Genealogical and Family History of the Wyoming and Lackawanna Valleys, Pennsylvania (1906), Volume 1<\/a>, by Horace Edwin Hayden. Published by New York, Chicago, The Lewis publishing company.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

JACOB WELLINGTON BOGERT, of Wilkes-Barre, sixth child of Samuel and Elizabeth (Ranton) Bogert, was born in Columbus, September 29, 1848. He was educated in the public schools and New Columbus Academy, where he graduated in 1868. He then learned the trade of blacksmith, which for a number of years he followed at Dallas. 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