page_title: Alvan Markle
section_title: Family Legacy
hierarchical_section_title: Alvan Markle / Personal life / Family Legacy
caption_attribution_description: English: Highacres (now Penn State Hazleton), built in 1924. Architect: John Russell Pope.
context_page_description: Alvan Markle was an American banker, businessman, engineer, and inventor based in Hazleton, Pennsylvania. He was the son of George Bushar Markle, a rural carpenter and ingenious inventor who became a successful banker and coal operator. Alvan was the brother of John Markle, who established the John and Mary Markle Foundation. Alvan, his father, and his brothers were instrumental in making Hazleton a financial and industrial hub through their inventions and their initiative in establishing regional transportation systems, electric power, extraction technologies, as well as social and educational institutions.
caption: Highacres, now the site of Penn State Hazleton
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