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Surnames: Bossert, Krueger, Gustaval,
Classification: Biography
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This book has no cover, and no index, and no author. I bought it on Ebay; it just has the
insides, but it is full of Indiana biographies. I am not researching this family, just
thought I would share. I do not know anymore about these families or these surnames. NOTE:
I don’t know if there is any additional mention of this family in the book, it has no
index. I do not want to sell this book. I am typing the biographies from it.
Typed by Lora Radiches:
Surnames in this biography are: Bossert, Krueger, Gustaval,
HON. ELMER F. BOSSERT. Hon. Elmer F. Bossert of Liberty, Indiana, not only was an able
lawyer, and former prosecuting district attorney, but one of the forces that move and
control society, for public confidence is generally reposed in the legal profession, for
it has been the defender of public right. Both as a public officer and private
practitioner Mr. Bossert has been an honor to his learned calling, and, although still in
the very prime of vigorous young manhood, has won wide distinction. The birth of Elmer F.
Bossert occurred at Brookville, Indiana, September 20, 1897, and he is a son of Abraham
and Carrie (Krueger) Bossert, he born at Longnecker, Ohio, near Harrison, and she born at
Cincinnati, Ohio. For many years the father was a merchant at Brookville, Indiana, and
there his useful life was terminated by death in. March, 1929. The mother survives and
still makes her home at Brookville. Reared as any lad of his day by watchful parents, and
given the advantages of!
a public school education through the high school, Elmer F. Bossert early developed
qualities that made it evident that he would be successful as a lawyer, and he continued
his studies in the University of Indiana, being graduated from its law school in 1921. Not
long thereafter he was appointed, to fill a vacancy, prosecuting attorney for the
Thirty-seventh Judicial District of Indiana, and filled the responsible office so capably
that he was elected to the same office in 1923, for a term of two years. At the expiration
of his term he located at Liberty, and here he has since been carrying on a
general practice, and he has also served as city attorney for Liberty, and for three years
he was attorney for Union County. In April, 1927, Mr. Bossert was married to Miss Thelma
Gustaval, who was born at Monticello, Indiana, and they have one son, Walter Richard. In
political faith Mr. Bossert is a Republican, and he is active in party affairs. Both he
and his wife are me!
mbers of the Presbyterian Church, and active in all of its functions. Fraternally his
affiliations are with the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons and the Knights of Pythias. In
the pursuit of his professional duties Mr. Bossert, of course, keeps fully abreast of the
times in legal lore, but he possesses a wonderful fund of general information, and is a
great reader. He believes that there should be given greater attention to the proper
training of the youth of the country, and the inculcation in them of rigid principles of
old fashioned honesty and integrity, whether dealing with individuals or corporations, and
a proper respect for age, law and order, and the rooting out from their minds the idea
that the acquisition of money is the only thing worth a life’s striving. He gives salutary
advice to those who are ambitious for success in the law, telling them that no matter what
may be their natural gifts, they will be doomed to utter failure unless they are willing
to s!
ubmit themselves unreservedly and unremittingly to the eternal work demanded by this most
exacting profession—the law.