Background
Boal was born in Iowa City, Iowa.
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He graduated with a degree in architecture from Iowa State University in 1889.
Career
Boalsburg, Pennsylvania was named for his ancestors. He was senior partner at the Boal and Harnois architectural firm in, Colorado. He joined an architecture firm in, Colorado in 1891 and continued to practice there until 1894 when he traveled to Paris, France to continue his architecture studies.
They had one child, Pierre.
He settled on his ancestral estate in Boalsburg, Pennsylvania after his father"s death. He added a ballroom, offices and outhouses in 1898.
During the Mexican war, and later in 1916, he raised his own cavalry squadron. He died in 1938, "partly ruined by the Great Crisis".
A shrine dedicated to the 28th Infantry Division is located on the grounds of the Pennsylvania Military Museum in Boalsburg, Pennsylvania.
The site was formerly Boal"s estate. In 1916 Boal formed the Boal Troop, the 1st Pennsylvania Cavalry, State College, a horse-mounted machine gun unit which was accepted as a provisional unit of the Pennsylvania Army National Guard. In April 1917, the Boal Troop was reconfigured as an infantry unit, Company A of the 107th Machine Gun Battalion, and deployed to France for service in World War I. Boal died in Boalsburg on August 22, 1938.
