Will County ILGenWeb Biographies..... Board, David J
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Author: History of Will County IL, 1878

David J. BOARD, druggist and farmer, Peotone; born in Passaic Co., N. J., April 28, 1820, 
living there until 11 years of age, when he attended the Crane Boarding School, at Caldwell, 
N. J., for four years; then to New York City; employed in jobbing dry goods until the panic 
of 1837, when he retired to his studies at Bellville; then to Morristown, where he finished 
his studies, preparatory to the study of law, which be commenced in 1840, with J. J. SCOFIELD, 
at the above place, where he remained four years, being admitted to the bar in 1844, when he 
removed to Paterson, N. J., and commenced practice, which he followed until 1852, when, on 
account of ill health, he abandoned his profession and made an overland trip to California, 
where he engaged as Treasurer of a mining company; also run hotel, ferry, dairy and ranch; 
selling out his interest, he returned to New Jersey in 1854; remaining there a short time, 
he came to Jackson Co., IL, and contracted to supply the I. C. R. R. with supplies for 
building the road, which business he followed until the completion of the road in that 
section; coming to Will Co. in 1857, he located in Will Twp., farming, and in 1858, he 
again contracted with the I. C. R. R. to supply ties and fuel at different points on the 
line of the road, which he continued until 1861, in connection with running stores at 
different points upon the line of the road; he then engaged for about two years in the 
manufacture of staves, at Ashley, IL, which he followed until the tax being placed upon 
whisky, he sold his interest to the Ashley Woolen-Mill; removing his family to Monee, Will 
Co., he went to Huntsville, Ala., where he engaged in running the Huntsville House and 
speculating in Government vouchers, cotton, etc., remaining until the following season, 
when, selling out his interest, he came North and attended his stock of upward of 700 head 
of cattle, which he had carried over the previous winter; in 1865, he located upon his farm 
and gave his attention to farming and raising blooded stock, until 1877, a period of twelve 
years, when he purchased an interest in the drug business, which business he now follows, 
under the firm name of BOARD & SHUMWAY. He was married in November, 1844, to Miss Susan P. 
LEWIS; she was born in New Jersey; they have five children by this union, viz., James L., 
Mary E., Ellsworth M., William and Nathaniel.


Additional Comments:
HISTORY OF WILL COUNTY, ILLINOIS; Chicago: Wm LeBaron Jr & Co, 186 Dearborn Street, 1878.

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