Bio of Bolton, Thomas J. (b.1843) Wabasha Co., MN
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Bolton, Thomas J., (page 1304), a prominent business man of Plainview, was 
born in Logan, Ohio, November 12, 1843. The death of his father occurred 
when Thomas J. was but nine years old, and the year following his mother 
removed with her family to Cleveland. In 1855 they came to Wabasha county, 
and our subject spent two years as a cabin-boy on a river steamboat. About 
the year 1861 he entered the drug business at Wabasha with Jas. Crowley. 
In December, 1865, this firm decided to open a branch store in Plainview, 
and Mr. Bolton assumed the management of the same. This was the first drug 
store ever established in Plainview. A store was erected for their 
business. Two years later they sold out to Mr. Felton, and Mr. Bolton 
returned to Wabasha and resumed his place in the old firm, but soon after 
sold out and went to Eyota, where he opened up a pioneer drug store on his 
own hook. The winter of 1873-4 he sold his Eyota store and returned to 
Plainview. He now owns about two hundred acres of land in Plainview 
township, and is a partner with Geo. S. La Rue in the drug business. His 
farm is situated on the site of Greenville, and he uses one of its old 
store buildings for a sheep-shed. He was for a time agent for Laird & 
Norton, lumber dealers, of Winona. Mr. Bolton is at present dealing in 
agricultural implements. He has had some experience as a publisher, having 
issued a regular advertising sheet for several years while engaged in the 
drug business, both in Plainview and Eyota. He is a prominent member of 
the Methodist Episcopal church of Plainview. In politics he is a 
republican, and has been chairman of the town board; is also a member of 
the Masonic brotherhood, and of the Order of Odd-Fellows. Ella, only child 
of Hon. A. P. Foster, of Plainview, became his wife on September 1, 1869. 
They have four children: Alonzo G., Miller T., Mary L and John.