CONFEDERATE BIOGRAPHY: B. N. BOREN - Smith County, TX

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TEXANS WHO WORE THE GRAY by Sid S. Johnson

B. N. BOREN.

B. N. Boren, of Dallas, was born at Nacogdoches in the Republic of 
Texas, January 30, 1842. His father was Sam­uel Hampson Boren and his 
mother was originally Miss Sara Dickson Long.  His great grandfather 
Nicholas Boren (who married Miss Mary Hampson of Maryland) was a 
soldier in the American Revolution; and his maternal great grand­father 
Gen. Joseph Dickson commanded a North Carolina brigade in the campaign 
against Lord Cornwallis.  B. N. Roren had scarcely finished his 
education when the war be­tween the states began.  He voluntered and 
was made lieu­tenant of Co. "C" in the 14th Texas Infantry, C. S. A., and 
later was promoted captain. His comrades say there was no braver soldier 
than Nep Boren as they affectionately knew him. His older brother, 
James N. Boren, who was Lieuten­ant of Douglas' Artillery, was killed in 
the battle of Rich­mond, Kentucky; and his uncle Richard B. Long was a 
gal­lant officer in one of the Texas regiments. After the war B. N. 
Boren was in business for a number of years in Tyler and Galveston, and 
then became president of the First National Bank in Belton.  In 1883 he 
removed to Dallas and estab­lished the wholesale grocery house--the 
Boren-Stewart Com­pany, which is one of the most powerful commercial 
concerns in the state.  Mr. Boren was married in 1876 to Miss Sue 
McKellar.  Their daughter, Nonie, is the wife of Hon Joseph P. Mahoney 
of Chicago, Ill., and their son S. H. Boren, Jr., is an officer in the 
Boren-Stewart Company in Dallas. Capt. Boren died in the spring of 1903 
and is buried in Oakwood cemetery in Tyler.