JEROME BOGLE.—The trade and industries of Clay county are largely
indebted to the many years of work which different members of the Bogle
family have spent in their advancement. Jerome Bogle, of this sketch, is
a leading merchant of Brazil, and was for years engaged in carriage paint-
ing, while his father was a pioneer builder of vehicles. He is also said
to have been the first manufacturer of furniture in the county. Jerome
Bogle is a native of Waveland, Montgomery county, Indiana, born on the
21st of September, son of John and Elizabeth (Adamson) Bogle.
His father was born in Washington county, that state, on the 26th of
March, 1822, and died in Bowling Green, Clay county, July 10, 1891. By
trade he was what is known as a carriage-body builder, and followed that
vocation at Waveland until 1859, when he located on a farm about a
mile east of Carbon. But the more stirring ways of business and the
manufactures were more suited to his temperament than the quieter life
of the husbandman, and in 1860 he located in Bowling Green, forming
a partnership With Elisha Adamson, his father-in-law, in the milling busi-
ness. After thus operating the enterprise for a number of years Mr.
Bogle founded the first furniture manufactory in Clay county, conducting
it for some three years. During his residence in Bowling Green he was
also quite a prominent public figure, his twelve years of service as justice
of the peace making a most honorable official record, He was a stanch
Democrat, who vigorously upheld the Union cause during the Civil war,
and a Mason in good standing with the Bowling Green lodge. His widow
was born in Rockville, Parke county, Indiana, and is now living with her
son of this sketch, an honored pioneer mother in her seventy-sixth year.
Her marriage to the elder Mr. Bogle occurred in the village of her birth,
and of their union were two sons and three daughters, of whom the fol-
lowing are living: Jerome, the oldest of the family, and John L. Bogle.
    Jerome Bogle received a common school education, and quite early in
life learned the trade of carriage painting, following that vocation until
1884. He then located in Brazil and engaged in the grocery and baking
business. He was for some time, earlier in his busy career, an employee
of the first carriage and agricultural house in Clay countv, the output of
the concern being entirely hand-work. Although the road was long, it
was continuously upward from the time that he worked for twenty-five
cents per day until he reached the position of a leading merchant of the
county. He is also a leading fraternalist, enjoying membership in the
following organizations: Brazil lodge No. 264, A. F. & A. M.; Brazil
chapter No. 59, R. A. M.; Brazil council No. 40, R. & S. M.; Brazil
commandery No. 47, K. T., and the Knights of Pythias order, No. 30.
In his political affiliations he is a Republican, and has long been a stanch
Methodist.
    The Bogle family came originally from Virginia, both the great-
grandfather and grandfather of Jerome being natives of Wythe county.
The former was Ralph Bogle, whose wife was a sister of Richard Henry
Lee, and the latter, James Bogle, the younger man being born January 16,
1796, and dying June 22, 1879. The grandfather married Miss Mary
Clemens, born September 29, 1793, who died in Indianapolis, Indiana, on
the 1st of November, 1866. The great-uncle of our subject, John Bogle,
was a well-known circuit rider of the M. E. church. His son, the uncle,
was a soldier of the Confederacy, and was attached to the body guard
of the famous cavalry officer, General John H. Morgan. In 1863 he par-
ticipated in the historic raid into Kentucky, Ohio and Indiana, and was
with General Morgan when he was captured. Mr. Bogle escaped by
swimming the Ohio river, his superior officer being confined in the Ohio
penitentiary for some time before his escape.
    On the 5th of October, 1876, Jerome Bogle wedded Emma H. Cole,
a native of Cloverdale, Indiana, born on the same day of the month
eighteen years before. She is the daughter of Samuel S. and Elizabeth
(Egnor) Cole, her father being a native of Hamilton, Ohio, and her
mother of Indiana. When quite a young man Samuel Cole came to Indi-
ana from Ohio, in 1849 locating at Cloverdale, Indiana, where he engaged
in the harness business and met his future wife. In 1872 he located at
Bowling Green, continuing in the same line for eleven years, and in 1882
making another change of business headquarters to Worthington, Greene
county. He is still actively engaged in business at that place, being in
partnership with his son, Charles B. Cole, who, with Mrs. Bogle, is the
only surviving child. The father has been an untiring worker in the
upbuilding of the Methodist church for the past fifty years. Fraternally
he is a Mason, and politically a Republican, He was master of the
Masonic lodge at Cloverdale for several years, and on his removal to
Worthington assisted in restoring the charter to Green Lodge No. 577,
of which lodge he was master for eight years.