Edward Hartley Bolen

1906 - 1992  (86 years)

• Name	Edward Hartley Bolen  [1]
  Birth	3 Oct 1906
  Gender	Male
  Death	18 Dec 1992	Mansfield, Richland County, Ohio
  Person ID	I3993	Carl
  Last Modified	20 May 2012

  
  

  Father	John H. Bolen,   b. 19 Apr 1881, Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio d. Aug 1932, Mansfield, Richland County, OH (Age 51 years)
  Mother	Alda Mae Strayer,   b. 28 Sep 1884   d. 8 Sep 1916, Logan County, Ohio (Age 31 years)
  Marriage	15 Mar 1906	Logan County, Ohio
  Family ID	F1250	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Naomi G. Etzwiler   d. 6 Apr 1966, Richland County, Ohio
  Marriage	1928
  Family ID	F1253	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	18 Jan 2014

  
  

  Family 2	Zelma Reed,   b. 30 Jan 1911   d. Jul 1980, Mansfield, Richland County, Ohio (Age 69 years)
  Marriage	25 Nov 1933
  Children	+ 1. Nelson Edward Bolen
  Family ID	F1254	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	18 Jan 2014

  
  

• Notes

  After the death of Edward's mother, no one was able to care for him, his brother Robert and his sister Dorothy. Dorothy was taken in by her mother's parent and Edward, along with his brother Robert, was placed in the Richland County Childreo e in Mansfield, Ohio. Room and board, plus clothes was paid by his father. Later, they moved to the Crawford County Children's Home that was recently opened and was much better for it had far less children and was more like a big family. It wa s a very unhappy part of their life. The superintendents were a retired couple with 3 children of their own. Edward was in the 7th or 8th grade at the time. In 1920, when his father remarried, he came to live in Mansfield with his brother, Rob ert. In 1923, Edward was forced to drop out of school in his junior year when his father burned his hands in order to help out with the family. Edward went to work for the Ohio Brass Company in Mansfield. He was able to finish hiseducation b y taking extension courses at Lincoln University in Cleveland, Ohio. Edward stayed with the Ohio Brass up to the time he retired.

  
  

• Sources

  [S448] GEDCOM file imported on 29 Mar 2003.