Meeker County MN Archives Biographies.....Boring, Eli 1836 - 
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   ELI BORING, an. ex-Union soldier, is a farmer who resides on section 10, Forest
Prairie township. He is a native of Clinton county, Ohio, born May 22, 1836, and is
a son of Absalom and Isabelle (Williams) Boring. His father and mother were natives
of Baltimore county, Md,, and Harrison county, Va., respectively. They are both
dead. The father died in Indiana, at the age of eighty-one years, April 28, 1888. He
was a farmer; had settled in Indiana in 1836, and was one of the pioneers of that
State. The mother was born in 1809 and died February 5, 1863. They were the parents
of eleven children, eight boys and three girls, the names of whom were as follows—
Thomas William, Lafayette, Eli, John A., Elizabeth, Sarah, Jesse E., Henry,
Harrison, William and Eliza.

  Eli Boring, the subject of this sketch, remained at home during his boyhood and
school days. On the 20th of February, 1864, he enlisted in Company D, Eighth Indiana
Cavalry, and went into the service. He saw active service and participated in
numerous battles, engagements and skirmishes. Ho was shot in the side at the battle
of Campbellton, Ga., and remained in the hospital for several weeks. On the 10th of
September, 1864, he was taken prisoner and was held for some three months, after
which he was in the hospital at Annapolis, Md., for three weeks, and, after a short
furlough, returned to his regiment. He was finally mustered out July 20,1865, near
Raleigh, N. C., and returned to his home in Indiana. In the fall of 1868 he came to
Meeker county, Minn., and located in Forest Prairie township. In 1882 he went to
Minneapolis and engaged in the milling business, but spent his winters at lumbering,
continuing this for three years, and then returned to Forest Prairie and settled
where he now resides.

   Mr. Boring was married on the 2d of November, 1886, to Miss Victoria Spaulding, a
daughter of Danville Spaulding, an old and respected citizen of Forest Prairie
township. They were married at Litchfield b3r N. C. Martin.

   Our subject is a man of the strictest integrity, and is respected by all who know
him. In political matters he affiliates with the republican party.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:
Illustrated Album of Biography
Meeker and McLeod Counties, Minnesota
1888


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