BIO:  JESSE M. BOSTON - SPENCER CO., KY


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Contributed by: Diana Flynn "ivie@tima.com"

Date: Tuesday, July 14, 1998 

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BOSTON,   STOUT,   VANDYKE


"HISTORY OF GREENE AND SULLIVAN COUNTIES, STATE OF
INDIANA, FROM THE EARLIEST TIME TO THE 
PRESENT; TOGETHER WITH INTERESTING
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, REMINISCENCES, NOTES, ETC." 
CHICAGO: GOODSPEED BROS.
& CO.,  PUBLISHERS. 1884.

SULLIVAN CO., INDIANA
JACKSON TWP.

PAGE 820

JESSE M. BOSTON, farmer and stock-raiser, P. O. Lewis, is of
English and Irish 
extraction.  He was born in 1817 in Worcester
County, Md., on the Pokomoke River.  
At the age of six years,
his father removed to Spencer County, Ky., where Jesse was

reared to manhood, but with limited educational advantages;  his
educaion he really 
acquired after leaving school, as he pursued
a course of self-culture for many years.  
He began teaching school
at the age of nineteen, and taught unitl his marriage, when he opened

a small store.  In 1842, he was united to M. J. Stout, daughter of
Rev. William and Mary 
(Vandyke) Stout, natives of Virginia, and
of English and German extraction.  Eight years 
after his marriage,
he moved to Sullivan County, Ind., and bought 140 acres of land
in Jackson 
Township.  He owned at one time 400 acres, which
he divided between his two sons, John W. and 
James M.  Mr.
Boston was a poor boy, his parents having died when he was
young.  His father 
Jesse Boston, was born in 1772, and died in
1830;  his mother was born in 1778, and died in 1831.
Their
remains repose in Spencer County, Ky.  They reared four
children--Eleanor H., James W., 
Edward and Jesse M.  The
grandparents of our subject were Jacob and Eleanor Boston.
Mr. Boston 
is an Independent in politics.



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