Will County ILGenWeb Biographies..... Boughton, Warren W
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Author: History of Will County IL, 1878

Warren W. BOUGHTON, deceased, Wheatland Twp.; the subject of this sketch was among the 
first settlers of Wheatland Twp.; was born in Genesee Co., N. Y., Feb. 10, 1817, and was 
the son of Orris and Sibyl Ann (NEWEL) BOUGHTON, who emigrated West, with six children, to 
Illinois, and settled in Wheatland Twp., Will Co., May, 1842; here they set out in farming. 
Orris BOUGHTON died in August 1843, at 61 years of age; his wife, Sibyl Ann, died in 
February 1860. Mr. Warren W. BOUGHTON married Mary SCOTT, born in Geauga Co., Ohio Jan. 9, 
1822. Mr. BOUGHTON, in 1850, started for the gold-field of California, and died on his way, 
leaving a wife and two children - Newel J., who was a soldier in the late war; enlisted (1861) 
in Co. L, Boulton's Battery, and served until the close of the war; was honorably discharged; 
he died in 1876. William D. is working on the old homestead, engaged in farming; was born in 
Wheatland Twp., Will Co., IL, Feb. 28, 1846. Married Miss Emma J. BOARDMAN, daughter of 
Franklin and Mina (BATES) BOARDMAN, who settled in Will Co. in 1844.


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

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