Boyles Lewis Wildpret
Boyles Lewis Wildpret, engineer for the Eastern Ohio Sewer Pipe Company at Irondale, O., has been a resident of Jefferson County during the past eighteen years. He was born in Bellaire, Belmont County, Ohio, March 9, 1878, and is a son of Charles Franklin and Ellen (Riggs) Wildpret.
The parents of the subject of this sketch moved from Belmont County to Jefferson County, Ohio, thence to Pennsylvania, but finally returned to Jefferson County, residing at the present time in Toronto, where Charles F. Wildpret is engineer for the Toronto White Ware Pottery. The mother of Boyles Lewis Wildpret was in maiden life Ellen Riggs. Her union with Mr. Wildpret resulted in the following offspring: William D., who married Anna McKee, resides at Toronto, and is employed as a machinist in the La Belle Iron Works at Steubenville; Boyles L.; Hughes C, who married Sadie Meyers, and is employed in the sheet department of the La Belle Iron Works; Tuckie, who is the wife of J. R. Gilcrest, who formerly was proprietor of the Toronto Machine Company and is at present building what is known as the Means Foundry and Machine Company of Toronto; Mary Estella, who is the wife of James Green, of Brilliant, O., who is a machinist by trade and in the employ of the Carnegie Steel Company at Mingo Junction; and Daisy Althea, who died at the agf! of ten months.
B. L. Wildpret attended the public schools of Brilliant and West Wheeling until he was fifteen years old, and then for two years was employed in the rolling mill at Brilliant, there learning the trade of engineer. He is also a machinist and has worked at either one or other of his trades from the time he was sixteen years old. He worked for some years as a machinist at the La Belle Iron Works, and in December, 1909, gave up his position there to accept his present one as engineer for the Eastern Ohio Sewer Pipe Company. He is a capable man and enjoys the confidence of all who know him. He has made material progress in a business way and has real estate interests in Texas.
In June, 1900, Mr. Wildpret was united in marriage with Miss Mary McCabe, a daughter of George McCabe, of Jeanette, Pa., and they have four children: Thelma Ernestine; Margaret and Marjorie, twins, the latter of whom is deceased; and Ruth, who also is deceased. The family attends the Irondale M. E. Church. Mr. Wildpret is a Socialist in politics. In fraternal afiiliation he is a member of Toronto Lodge, No. 583, F. & A. M., at Toronto, O., and is also a member of Local No. 2, United Clay Workers of America.
From 20th Century History of Steubenville and Jefferson County, Ohio, by Joseph B. Doyle. Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, 1910