Horace De Turk Bertolet

1831 - 1865  (34 years)

• Name	Horace De Turk Bertolet
  Birth	15 Jun 1831
  Gender	Male
  Death	24 Jun 1865  [1]
  Burial	Charles Evans Cemetery, Reading, Berks County, Pennsylvania, USA
  Person ID	I26816	Tulpehocken Genealogy
  Last Modified	20 Dec 2022

  
  

  Father	Abraham Bertolet,   b. 1803   d. 1835 (Age 32 years)
  Mother	Catharine DeTurk Guldin,   b. 1812   d. 1874 (Age 62 years)
  Family ID	F8818	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Adeline B Frey Miller,   b. 20 May 1832, Warwick Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA d. 7 Jun 1925, Cumru Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 93 years)
  Marriage	1853
  Children	+ 1. Ida Eugenie Bertolet,   b. 17 May 1855, Reading, Berks County, Pennsylvania, USA d. 16 Oct 1913, Morgantown, Berks County, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 58 years)   2. John Marshal Bertolet,   b. 1857   d. 1929 (Age 72 years)   3. William George Bertolet,   b. 1859   d. 1885 (Age 26 years)   4. Catharine Theresa (Bower) Bertolet,   b. 1861   d. 1941 (Age 80 years)   5. Ella Susan (Mehary) Bertolet,   b. 1862   d. 1954 (Age 92 years)
  Family ID	F8817	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	20 Dec 2022

  
  

• Notes

  Book of Biographies - Berks County "Horace D Bertolet was born in Oley Township, and during his childhood and early boyhood live in Fridensburg, Berks County. When yet a lad of probably sixteen or seventeen years he entered the employment of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad. Here his mechanical genius was so apparent that it attracted great attention and was a matter of surprise to his employers. He soon developed great skills, and was the best mechanic in the employ of the company an so considered by them. One of his inventions now in use by all of the railroads in the United States is a cylinder cock apparatus exhausting the water from the cylinder of locomotives, in place of the ordinary stop cock. He afterwards entered the draughting department of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, and many of the best machinists of the city today were students under him in mechanical drawing. He was a natural genius in mechanics and was widely known for his skill. His future looked most promising, and his friends predicted for him a brilliant career in that field, but most unfortunately their prediction was never fulfilled. His untimely death at the age of thirty four years cut off the life that had begun with such a promise of usefulness, and was the cause of universal sorrow to all those who knew and heard of him."

  
  

• Sources

  [S64] Website: Find a Grave [text], https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/93179211/horace-de_turk-bertolet.