From the Biographical Record of the Counties of Huron and Lorain, Ohio. Chicago, J.H. Beers & Co. 1894 (pg 321-322)
" ELON G. BOUGHTON, abstracter and conveyancer, Norwalk, is a native of Huron county, born June 30, 1839, a son of John and Susan (Benedict) Boughton.
E. G. Boughton was reared to early manhood in the vicinity of his birth, gaining the experiences of the average boy of the period in the schools, and in learning the practical lessons of patient labor and economy. When only a well-grown youth he taught school successfully for three terms, but when the tocsin of war rang out over our Union, the young man dropped his birch baton and enlisted, in September, 1861, in Company D, Forty-first Regiment O. V. I. He went to the front with the army of the Cumberland, and was wounded November 25, 1863, at the battle of Missionary Ridge, after which he was on detached service to the close of his three years term of enlistment. On his return home he engaged in farming until 1872, when he was elected recorder of Huron county, and was subsequently re-elected, serving three consecutive terms, or nine years. While in office, almost as apart of his duties, he commenced work in a set of abstract books, and immediately on retiring to private life opened his present abstract and conveyancer's office, in which line be has commanded almost a monopoly of the business.
E. G. Boughton and Melinda A. Davis, a native of Huron county, were united in marriage March 22, 1865, and they have had four children: Will. H., Fred G.. Lena M. and Laura M. The Boughton family is one of the eminently respected in Huron county."
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" ELON G. BOUGHTON, abstracter and conveyancer, Norwalk, is a native of Huron county, born June 30, 1839, a son of John and Susan (Benedict) Boughton.
E. G. Boughton was reared to early manhood in the vicinity of his birth, gaining the experiences of the average boy of the period in the schools, and in learning the practical lessons of patient labor and economy. When only a well-grown youth he taught school successfully for three terms, but when the tocsin of war rang out over our Union, the young man dropped his birch baton and enlisted, in September, 1861, in Company D, Forty-first Regiment O. V. I. He went to the front with the army of the Cumberland, and was wounded November 25, 1863, at the battle of Missionary Ridge, after which he was on detached service to the close of his three years term of enlistment. On his return home he engaged in farming until 1872, when he was elected recorder of Huron county, and was subsequently re-elected, serving three consecutive terms, or nine years. While in office, almost as apart of his duties, he commenced work in a set of abstract books, and immediately on retiring to private life opened his present abstract and conveyancer's office, in which line be has commanded almost a monopoly of the business.
E. G. Boughton and Melinda A. Davis, a native of Huron county, were united in marriage March 22, 1865, and they have had four children: Will. H., Fred G.. Lena M. and Laura M. The Boughton family is one of the eminently respected in Huron county."
Info Thanks to Graves (#47171280)
From the Biographical Record of the Counties of Huron and Lorain, Ohio. Chicago, J.H. Beers & Co. 1894 (pg 321-322)
" ELON G. BOUGHTON, abstracter and conveyancer, Norwalk, is a native of Huron county, born June 30, 1839, a son of John and Susan (Benedict) Boughton.
E. G. Boughton was reared to early manhood in the vicinity of his birth, gaining the experiences of the average boy of the period in the schools, and in learning the practical lessons of patient labor and economy. When only a well-grown youth he taught school successfully for three terms, but when the tocsin of war rang out over our Union, the young man dropped his birch baton and enlisted, in September, 1861, in Company D, Forty-first Regiment O. V. I. He went to the front with the army of the Cumberland, and was wounded November 25, 1863, at the battle of Missionary Ridge, after which he was on detached service to the close of his three years term of enlistment. On his return home he engaged in farming until 1872, when he was elected recorder of Huron county, and was subsequently re-elected, serving three consecutive terms, or nine years. While in office, almost as apart of his duties, he commenced work in a set of abstract books, and immediately on retiring to private life opened his present abstract and conveyancer's office, in which line be has commanded almost a monopoly of the business.
E. G. Boughton and Melinda A. Davis, a native of Huron county, were united in marriage March 22, 1865, and they have had four children: Will. H., Fred G.. Lena M. and Laura M. The Boughton family is one of the eminently respected in Huron county."
Info Thanks to Graves (#47171280)
" ELON G. BOUGHTON, abstracter and conveyancer, Norwalk, is a native of Huron county, born June 30, 1839, a son of John and Susan (Benedict) Boughton.
E. G. Boughton was reared to early manhood in the vicinity of his birth, gaining the experiences of the average boy of the period in the schools, and in learning the practical lessons of patient labor and economy. When only a well-grown youth he taught school successfully for three terms, but when the tocsin of war rang out over our Union, the young man dropped his birch baton and enlisted, in September, 1861, in Company D, Forty-first Regiment O. V. I. He went to the front with the army of the Cumberland, and was wounded November 25, 1863, at the battle of Missionary Ridge, after which he was on detached service to the close of his three years term of enlistment. On his return home he engaged in farming until 1872, when he was elected recorder of Huron county, and was subsequently re-elected, serving three consecutive terms, or nine years. While in office, almost as apart of his duties, he commenced work in a set of abstract books, and immediately on retiring to private life opened his present abstract and conveyancer's office, in which line be has commanded almost a monopoly of the business.
E. G. Boughton and Melinda A. Davis, a native of Huron county, were united in marriage March 22, 1865, and they have had four children: Will. H., Fred G.. Lena M. and Laura M. The Boughton family is one of the eminently respected in Huron county."
Info Thanks to Graves (#47171280)
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