Sutter-Yuba County Biographies


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ANDREW KELLER BOSARD
 
An enterprising, thoroughly progressive business man, who well merits his 
prosperity, is Andrew Keller Bosard, the agent of the popular Willys-Knight and 
Overland cars, at Marysville.  He was born at Osceola, Pa., July 20, 1878, the 
son of Jerome L. and Alice (Smith) Bosard, the former a pioneer who elected to 
migrate to Dakota in early days, and came to have extensive interests in both 
the Dakotas and in Pennsylvania.  An uncle of our subject, J. H. Bosard, was the 
first Governor of the Dakotas, when they were yet a territory.  The Bosards came 
from an old Huguenot family, members of which fought in the War of the 
Revolution.  Johann Phillip Bossartte left Normandy, France, in the time of 
Louis XIV, at the time of the Protestant uprising, and settled where 
Bosardsville now is, four miles from the Delaware Water Gap.
Andrew Bosard attended both the grammar and the high school, and then went to 
Cornell University, leaving there to go to the University of North Dakota, where 
he was given the A.B. degree in 1903.  He then became a traveling salesman, 
continuing in that line of work until 1912, when he engaged in the automobile 
business in San Francisco, coming to Marysville in 1917.  From the time of his 
arrival here, he has been a live wire, promoting motor interests; and since 1921 
he has had the agency of the above-named cars for Sutter and Yuba Counties.  The 
many cars of these types in use in this section are some index to what his 
unremitting energy has accomplished.
Mr. Bosard is a thirty-second-degree Scottish Rite Mason and a Shriner, and 
belongs to the Sciots; and he is also a member of the Eastern Star.  In 
politics, he is a Republican.  He is keenly interested in the future of both 
Yuba and Sutter Counties.
 
History of Yuba and Sutter Counties, Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, 1924
p 830