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Author: Eugene T. Sawyer (1922)

  MILTON A. BOULWARE.—The advanced and eminently satisfactory state of the
undertaker's profession in California today is undoubtedly due to such
far-seeing, idealistic and progressive men as Milton A. Boulware, the secretary
of the San Jose Undertaking Company, who was born in Little Calaveras Valley,
Santa Clara County, on Washington's birthday, 1856. His father, John Wesley
Boulware, a farmer in Missouri, married Miss Louisa Rebecca Lewis, and together
they crossed the wide prairies in 1849, settling at first in Little Calaveras
Valley. In 1860, they removed to Palo Alto; and there they continued to live
until they died, aged about sixty-four years. They had seven children, and
Milton was the second of the family. He attended the public schools in Santa
Clara County, and then took a course in the business college; and when he was
ready to do for himself, he sold merchandise in the General Farmers' Union.
Next, for a number of years, he was bookkeeper for T. W. Hobson & Company, and
after that, also for a number of years, bookkeeper and cashier for the Rucker
Bros. Furniture Company. When he left that firm, it was to assist J. E. Rucker
for a couple of years in the real estate field. In 1900 he joined the staff of
the San Jose Undertaking Company, and he has been here ever since.

  On December 24. 1878, Mr. Boulware was married at San Jose to Miss Mary
Elizabeth Rucker, the daughter of Joseph E. Rucker, a well-known pioneer realty
man, and their union has been blessed with the birth of twin daughters. Helen K.
is the wife of Grover C. Emmons, a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
and Susie W., now Mrs. J. R. Connor, whose son, Douglas Conner, is the first
grandchild of Mr. and Mrs. Boulware. The family attend St. Paul's Methodist
Episcopal Church; and Mr. Boulware is a member of the Royal Arch and Knights
Templar Masons, and for thirty-two years was secretary of San Jose Lodge No. 10,
F. & A. M. He also belongs to the Elks, the Modern Woodmen of America, the
Eastern Star and the Order of Amaranth. In national politics a Republican, Mr.
Boulware, who is also fond of ranch and out-door life, finds his greatest
pleasure in promoting, in a nonpartisan manner, whatever is to the best
interests of the community.


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HISTORY OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY CALIFORNIA
WITH
Biographical Sketches
OF
The Leading Men and Women of the County Who Have Been Identified With Its Growth
and Development From the Early Days to the Present

HISTORY BY
EUGENE T. SAWYER

ILLUSTRATED COMPLETE IN ONE VOLUME

HISTORIC RECORD COMPANY
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA 
1922


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