My Genealogy Hound

ROBERT BOLE, retired, Bellevue, brother of Alexander Bole (whose sketch appears elsewhere), was born Sept. 23, 1817, in County Down, Ireland, son of John and Rose Ann (McWhirk) Bole, who were the parents of ten children, three of whom, Robert, Alexander and Hugh M., came to America. Robert served his apprenticeship in Belfast at the cooper’s trade, and on coming to Pittsburgh, in 1843, worked six years for William Teese, whom he bought out at the end of that time. He then carried on large barrel-works on Duquesne way for about twenty years, when he retired from active business, as the Standard Oil company and the county workhouse had nearly ruined his trade. He married, in 1848, Euphemia Kirkpatrick, sister of Allen Kirkpatrick, and four children have been born to them, viz.: Joseph K., in the iron and steel business at Cleveland, Ohio; Robert A., John C. and Mary E. Mr. Bole and family, excepting Mary E., who is a Covenanter, are members of the U. P. Church, of which he has been an elder since 1860. He resided in Allegheny City until 1880, when he moved to his fine home in Bellevue.