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Bosler, James Williamson

merchant, was born April 4, 1833, in Hoguestown, Pa. He was the organizer and president of The Palo Blanco Cattle Co. of New Mexico. The election of President Garfield was due to him as much as to any other man in the United States, the financial part of that campaign being organized by him, when it had begun to droop. The handsome James W. Bosler memorial building, of Dickinson college, perpetuates his name. He died Dec. 17, 1883, in Carlisle, Pa.

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