Meeker County MN Archives Biographies.....Boynton, Henry J. 1820 - 
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   HENRY J. BOYNTON, an energetic and prosperous farmer and stock-raiser of Forest
City township, lives upon section 16, where he settled in 1865. He is engaged, to a
large extent, in the raising of cattle, and for a man of his years is extremely
active and business like, for he was born May 18, 1820. Lincolnville, Penobscot
county, Maine, was the home of his parents, Jeremiah and Sarah (Higgins) Boynton, at
the time of his birth. His father was born in Kennebec county, that State, and his
mother at Lincolnville. The former died in 1870, the latter in 1868.

   The subject of this narrative was reared in his native State, and until he was
eleven years of age, attended school at Bradley, Penobscot county. At the age of
thirteen he commenced life, lumbering upon the rivers of Maine, and followed that
business until he had reached the age of forty-five years. With a view to change his
mode of life he then removed westward and settled in Meeker county, where he has
since made his home. He has been connected with several of the town offices since
his coming here, and merits and receives the warmest esteem and respect of all who
know him.

  Upon the 9th of August, 1841, Mr. Boynton and Miss Ruth Eaton, pledged. their
mutual vows at the marriage altar. The lady is a native of Nova Scotia, and daughter
of Guy and Lydia (Rockwell! Eaton, natives of Nova Scotia, who had moved to the
above province some time before the birth of their daughter. By this union Mr. and
Mrs. Boynton have a family of nine children, as follows: Mary Ann, wife of Andrew
Gilchrist; Albert, in Minneapolis; Lewyn, who married Miss Lizzie Abbott, and is
living in Eden Valley; Louisa, Mrs. Wm. Peters; Charles; Eldora, the wife of Rollin
Thorp, of Wright county; Lizzie, who married Rev. L. L. Tower, and is living
at-Princeton, this State; Alonzo, residing at home; and Effie, Mrs. D. Lounsberry,
of Manannah township.

  Mr. Boynton is a life-long democrat, casting his first vote for the candidate of
that party in 1841. He and his family are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
and he has occupied the position of steward and class leader in that denomination
for some time, and was quite prominently identified with the building up of the
congregation at Forest City.


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


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