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506	HISTORY OF CAMBRIA COUNTY.
12, 1810, married, about 1830, Annie Fisher; he was a stone mason by trade. 4. John, born August 15, 1812. 5. James, born December 27, 1815.     The father of the above children, John Bolsinger, was in the war of 1812 aS color sergeant, and the old flaG was kept in the family until the great flood at Johnstown when it was carried away by the flood.     William Bolsinger, son of John Bolsinger, born April 10, 1808, died in January, 1836. He was the roadmaster of the old Portage railroad for many years, and later had charge of the car shops in the Cambria Steel plant at Johnstown; he was one of the well known mechanics of his day. He married Sarah Price, born in Winchester, Virginia, March 21, 1809, died June 27, 1895. She was of Welsh descent; her mother's maiden name was Winifred Peters. Their children were: John, born 1839, died in infancy. 2. James W., born 1832, died in infancy. 3. Perry C., born October 10, 1834 married, in 1857, Nancy McMillin; he was connected with Cambria Iron Company for many years as head clerk. He died September, 1903. 4. Elizabeth, born January 21, 1825, died 1866; she married, May 12, 1846, Stephen Gadd, of Salem, Pennsylvania. 5 and 6. Benjamin and Sturgean, twins, born 1836; Sturgean died 1873; he married Levinia Riley; Benjamin married Susan Stone, resides in Altoona, is engineer. 7. George, born 1838, resides in west. 8. Jennie, born 1840, wife of James Walters, of Freedom, Illinois; a blacksmith. 9. Jesse S., born February 13, 1844, see forward.     Jesse S. Bolsinger, son of William and Sarah (Price) Bolsinger, born February 13, 1844, was but a small boy when they moved to Johnstown, where he was educated, and in his early years was engaged with his father and a brother in the drug business in Johnstown. When the Civil war broke out he enlisted in the Union cause, August 4, 1861, in first Pennsylvania Cavalry, participated in two heavy engagements and minor engagements, and was mustered out May, 1862, on account of disability. Upon his return from the service he located in Cherry Tree, where he married and engaged in the tinner's business, remaining until 1870, when he removed to Ebensberg, where he has since resided. For a number of years he was connected with the plumbing business, but in recent years has lived a retired life. For the past five years he has been one of the tipstaves at the court house. In his political views he is a Democrat. He is a member of the Presbyterian church; also of the Odd Fellows order and the Grand Army of the Republic. He married Irene B. McCormick daughter of Captain Robert McCormick, a captain in the Civil war, and in later years a well known lumberman, being a member of the St. Lawrence Lumber & Boom Company. He served in Seventy-eighth Pennsylvania Regiment as captain through entire war. He represented Indiana county in legislature of 1868.     The children of Jesse S. and Irene B. Bolsinger are as follows: Edgar M., consulting engineer at Pittsburg: Milton H., plumber, of Altoona, Pennsylvania; Sarah E., wife of Edgar Lingle, of New Brighton, Pennsylvania; Robert J., of Ebensburg; Ray C., of Ebensburg; Harry D., of Ebensburg; Walter N., see forward.     Walter Neff Bolsinger, son of Jesse S. and Irene B. (McCormick) Bolsinger, acquired his education in the public schools of Ebensburg, and early in life apprenticed himself to the plumber's trade, with which he was associated about fifteen years. During his work as a journeyman, he drifted from the eastern coast as far west as Denver, Colorado. In his travels he came in contact with the most skilled mechanics in his line in the country, and by this association became an expert in all branches

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