The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-01-26
DIR. G. NJ. BosLEY DEAD.
i Prominent NaFyIand Physician
Expires in Baltimore.


BALTIMORE, Jan. 2t-Dr. Grafton
Marsh Bcsley. Of Towson. died YESTERDAY
morning Of stomach trouble, superinduced
by old age, at the Church Home and In
frmary. North Broadway. whore he had
been under treatment for six weeks. His
/ body VIII be removed TO the home of his
only son. Arthur l. Bosley. 1920 North
! Calvert Street with whom ne had been
| living recently.
| Dr. Ro=ley was born March s. 1925 on
! the old York Turnpike. and was educated
] az the Episcopal High School a, Alexan-
/ dria, Va and Dickinson College. PennsyI-
Tania. from which he graduated in July:
/ 1874. with the degree of \ B., afterward
| having The degree Of A NJ conferred upon
! him he entered the Maryland University
! Scnool Of Medicine in Baltimore and grad
! uated II March. 1877 The following year
/ Dr. B0stey moved 10 Towson and formed a
( partnership with his uncle, DR.. Josiah
4 Marco After the death Of Dr. March in
| 1870, Dr. Rosiey continued 20 practice for
/ z humber Of years and then retired to
/ S!Te all his attention 10 the mana cement
! OF his large real estate interests Dr.. Bos-
! ley Inherited large estate from his IN
/ Gle, Dr. March The Court House and jail
! grounds of TuwsOn were given 10 the
county by DR.. Bosley when the county
| seaJ was established there He was yes
! trytna- OF Trinity Protestant Episcopal
Church, TowsOn, many years. He was d
charter meraDer o TOwson Lodge No "a.
! Independent Order of Odd Fellows. iusti-
! tuted JonuaTy 10, 1852. was its first noble
grand, and iatcr was grand master Of the
State Lodge
On May >, 1851 he married MargaTetta
NJ. Nicholson, of Baltimore. daughter OF
Isaac L. and Caroline Nicholson She
died July Il. 1888. when fifty-one years
old Arthur J. Bosley, his only son, is
the owner of the Frederick Electric Light
and Power COMPANY of Frederick. Md
He married Mss May A Turner. of Phil
adelPhia- They have TWO children. Bea-
trico and Marguerite Bosley- Politically
Dr. RosIey was a Democrat and was prom
inenJ in the councils of his party
Dr. Bosley came Of distinguished lin
cage n both his fathers and his moth
er's side The founder OF the BcsIev
family in America was Walter BosIev.
baFrister1 at-law, who came from England
about the middle Of the seventeenth cen
tUTy. From James. his grandson. de-
scended James, the paternaI grandfather
OF DR.. Bosley. Anon Bosley, father of
DIT. Bosley, was born February p. 1873
During the war of 1872 he served in the
cavalry under the command OF Col. y NJ
BOsley, Of Baltimore county His broth
er, paterual uncle of Dr. Boslev. also
served in the same war.
IL 1913 Anon Bosley married Miss
Rebecca Marsh Ten children were born
10 them-Joshua NJ Temperance Ellen.
who married Edward c. Talbot; Sarah.
James Walter. Rebecca, who married
Nicholas II. Merryman; Grafton Marsh.
ann Elizabeth, who married Joshua F c.
Talbot; E Sophia. who married Walter
Shirley; Elizabeth NJ and Nicholas N. He
died August %. 1898, and his wife died
September p, 1853
Thomas Marsh, founder Of that family
N MARYLAND, settled in Baltimore county
about 1910 Capt Joshua Marsh's daugh-
ter Rebecca, was DR.. Bosley's mother.
Capt Joshua Marsh took prominent part
IN the Revolutionary struggle, and his
four brothers, the doctors maternal IN
cles, all served IN the war Of 1872
Dr. BOsley's funeral viii take place to-
morrow afternoon from Trinity Protest
ant Episcopal Church, Towson