Bouton-Boughton Family

924* Cora Emergene Bouton, who was born Oct. 26, 1864, and died at Three Rivers, Dec. 2, 1870. But new expe- riences awaited him. In a letter dated May 26, 1861, he says: *' There is considerable excitement now-a- days about our country's welfare, and I think it is about time something was done." With this spirit he enlisted, Aug. 24, 1861, as Sergeant in Co. G., 11th Michigan Infantry Volunteers. He took part in a lar^e number of battles and heavy skirmishes, serving chiefly along the valleys of the Cumberland and the Tennessee. Among the most important engagements were those at Stone River, Tullahoma, Chickamauga, Lookout Mountain, Dallas, Kenesaw Mountain, Marietta and Atlanta. At the battle of Stone River he narrowly escaped death, receiving a wound in the head. At the battle of Missionary Ridge he was left in command of his company and the next night made a charge by which he captured 200 prisonei-s, four guns and two caissons. For six months he retained the command of the company. He refused a commission, however, and at the end of three years returned to his family, having been in the meantime sent on recruiting service for a few months Taking up his residence at Three Rivers, he has been chosen to various public offices. He was marshal in 1878-79, a member of the city council in 1884 and 1886, and in 1887 held the office of supervisor of Lockport township. His first wife having died, he EHrxEJJE BOUTON. BOUTON-BOUGHTON FAMILY. 83 married for a second wife Mrs. Josie S. Arnold, of Three Rivers, by whom he has one son — 918 924* Eugene Bouton, bom Dec. 21, 1884, at Three Rivers. Child of Ira (son of William Bouton) and Emma Foote Bouton, his second wife. 845 924* Eugene Bouton, A.M., Ph.D , was bom at Jeflferson, Schoharie Co., N. Y., Dec. 6, 1850. His primary and intermediate education was received in the public schools of Jeffei-son, and his preparation for college was ob- tained chiefly at Oazenovia Seminary, Cazenovia, N. Y., where he secured numerous prizes for proficiency in his several studies. After a course at Yale College, in which he excelled especially in composition and oratory, he was graduated in 1875, being the class poet, and having received during the course, sevei^ honors of a similar character. After teaching for two years at the Norwich Academy, Norwich, N. i., and then for three years at Sherburne, N. Y., as principal of the union school, he was elected Professor of the English Lan- gua^ and Literature in the Albany Academy at Albany . N. Y., which position he retainea for three and a hair years. In the spring of 1881 he was elected Professor of History and English Literature in the College of Charleston at Charleston, S. C, but decided to remain at Albany. After studying poetry under Prof. H. A. Beers, he received the degree of M.A. from Yale Col- lege, in 1881. During the summer of 1881 he traveled in Great Britain and France, for the pupose of obtain- ing information concerning his favorite studies, and in 1-882 he received the degree of Ph.D. from Syracuse University, on an examination in EngUsh Literature. On the first of January, 1884,- he was appointed by the State Superintendent of Public Instruction a member of the Institute Faculty of the State of New York, and served thereon two years, until he was appointed Deputy Superintendent of Public Instruction, in Janu- ary, 1886, and shortly afterwards Principal of the State Normal and Training School at New Paltz, Ulster Co., N. Y. During the autumn of 1884, he published, in connection with Prof. James Johonnot, a work on ele- mentary physiology and hygiene, entitled '• How We Live ; or the Human Body, and How to take Care of It." D. Appleton & Co., New York. He has also pub- lished various papers on educational and other topics, June 29, 1887, ne married Elizabeth Rumrill Gladwin. 84 BOUTON-BOUGHTON FAMILY. b. Sherburne, N. Y., Oct. 9, 1865, daughter of Albert R. Gladwin, Esq., of Sherburne, Chenango Co., N. Y. Gh. of Prof. Eugene and Elizabeth R. Gladwin Boaton. « y24* i. Katharine Bouton, b. Sherburne, N. Y., Jan. 26, 1889. (iv.) Bennett Ai Bouton, M.D., son of Wm. and Hannah Bouton, b.Watertown, Ct., Aug. 14, 1801; when he had reached the age of six years his parents moved to Meredith, Del. Co., N. Y., where he received his ele- mentiary education, which was supplemented by a course at the Jeflferson Academy, at Jefferson, N. i . ; in 1828 he graduated in medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, practiced two years at Ivleredith, N. Y., and removed in 1830 to Tunkhannock, Pa., where he married Feb. 3, 1839, Martha Ann Young, daughter of Abijah Young, of Drake ville, N. J. , who died at Penn- sylvania, March, 1848 ; m. second, at Tunkhannock, Pa., Jan. 22, 1851, Sarah Caroline MiUer, of Madison, N. J., and in the autumn of 1868 he moved to 205 Penn avenue, Scranton, where he died Feb. 22, 1876, in his 75th year. The more immediate cause of his death was attributable to exposure in professional life and ser- vice. At a meeting of the physicians of Scranton, the following resolutions were adopted, showing the high esteem in which he was held by the physicians of his locality at the time of his decease. Resolutions : '^ It is rare to see an old physician in the county who, for half a century, has administered to the wants of its inhabitants, with a kindness and skill difficult to equal and impossible to surpass, as witnessed in the instance of our departed co-working friend, Dr. Bennett Ai Bouton. ** We deplore his death and deeply sympathize with his family. Well known and even beloved along the valleys of the Susquehanna, Mehoopany and Meshop- pen in every house and hamlet where sickness encroaches, for his sterling qualities as a true gentle- man and a most estimable physician, and who never heard the call of humanity in vain, as a friend that never could be distrusted, we feel that the profession he so long honored, the community that he so long served, seldom meets with such a loss as is now felt in the death of Dr. Bouton. BOUTON-BOUGHTON FAMILY. 85 ^^Resolvedy That we will attend the funeral and accompany the remains to his former home in Tunk- hannock in a body. ^^ Resolved, That all physicians in the county be requested to join in the funeral of the deceased." Horace Ladd, William E. Allen, A. W. BtlRNS, H. HOTT.TSTER, Committee. Ch. of Dr. Bennett A. and Martha A. Tonng Bonton. 886 925 i. William Augustus Bouton, b. Tunkhannock, Pa., Nov. 23, 1839, and d. July 29, 1846. 926 ii. George Morton Bouton, b. Tunkhannock, Pa., June 1843, and died at Tunkhannock, Pa., March 16, 1852. 927 iii. Edwin Davis Bouton, b. Tunkhannock, Wyoming Co., Pa., Aug. 24, 1845 ; removed to Greeley, Col., August, 1870 ; m. Lake City, Col., Feb. 24,1881, Made- leine Wendling, who was bom in Alsace, France, March 7, 1846. Her parents emigrated to America in her infancy. She was educated for a teacher, and was for ten years assistant principal of one of the large ward schools of Dubuque, Iowa. They resided at Colo- rado Springs, Col., January, 1887. €h. of Edwin D. and Madeleine Wendling Bonton, of Colorado Springs, Colorado. 927 928 Craig Miller Bouton, b. April 1, 1882. 929 Ethel Bouton, b. Grand Junction, Col., Feb. 15, 1886. 930 iv. Frederick Miller Bouton (son of Dr. Bennett Ai and Sarah C. Miller Bouton), b. March 14, 1854, at Providence, now Scranton, Pa., druggist, m. Alice Minerva Miller, Scranton, Sept. 5, 1876. (v.) Mary Esther Bouton, (daughter of William and Hannah Carrington Bouton), was bom at Watertown, Ct., Feb. 14, 1804, m. at Meredith, N. Y., Lyman Arnold, Sept. 16, 1822 ; seven daughters and one son ; she died Dec. 28, 1885. (vi.) William Bouton (son of William and Hannah), b. Watertown, Ct., Dec. 13, 1806, m. March 10, 1831, Mary Young ; settled at Ypsilanti, Mich. ; died April 30, 1879. 86 BOUTON-BOUGHTON FAMILY. Ch. of William and Mary Tonngr Boaton. 888 931 i. Mary Esther Bouton, b. Geneva, N. Y., Sept. 8, 1833, m. June 7, 1855, George McElcheran. Ch. of George and Mary E. Bonton McEleheran. 981 93 1» MiNA McElcherak. b. Ypsilauti, Mich., April 5, 1868. 931* Hattie McElcheran, b. ipsilanti, Mich, Oct. 3, 1863. 932 ii. Clara J. Bouton, (dau. of William and Mary Young Bouton), b. Geneva, N. Y., Sept. 17, 1835, m. April 2, 1856, Simon P. Westman ; settled at Canton, HI., where he died July 5, 1866 ; no children ; she married Erie P. Campbell, Oct. 15, 1872, and lived at Pinkney, Mich.^ in 1887. 933 iii. Sarah E. Bouton, (daughter of WilUam and Mary,) b. Geneva, N. Y., March 27, 1837, m. William Dicker- son, Nov. 29, 1857. Ch. of William and Sarah E. Boaton Dickerson. 934 Charles Dickerson, b. May 7, 1858, 935 Frank J. Dickerson, b. Jan. 3. 936 George W. Bouton, (son of William and Mary Young Bouton), b. July 17, 1840, m. March 11, 1863, Ahce Hart. 937 (v.) Minerva J. Bouton, dau. WiUiam and Mary Young Bouton, b. July 27, 1844 m. Charles F. Newton, May 9, 1867, d. Feb. 3, 1886. Ch. of Charles F. and Minenra J. Boaton Newton. 938 i. Etta Dean Newton, b. Jan. 27, 1868. 889 (vii.) Alma Bouton, (dau. of William and Hannah Bouton,) b. Meredith, N. Y., Dec. 31, 1809, m. John G. Graham, and settled at Meredith, N. Y.; he died Jan. 12, 1875, at Meredith, where his widow continued to live 1886. Ch. of John 6. and Alma Boaton Graham. 939 i. Mary A. Graham, b. May May 6, 1843. 940 ii. Wn^LiAM J. Graham, b. April 8, 1844, died Jan. 13, 1849. 941 iii. Minerva E. Graham, b. June 5, 1845, m. Marshall L. S. Jackson, Jan. 8, 1867, and settled at Oneonta, N. Y. Mr. Jackson enlisted in the 144th Regiment of New York State Volunteers, Co. D, in August, 1862, and served for three years. He was a merchant at Oneonta, 1887. BOUTOR-BOUGHTON FAMILY. 87 Ch. of Mlnerra E. Graham and Marshall L. S* Jaekson, 941 942 Fbbd M. H. Jackson, b. Dec. 18, 1867. 943 Alma Eloise Jackson, b. Sept. 6, 1874. 944 iv. Marla Graham, b. May 20, 1848, m. Ezra Gates. Ch, of Ezra and Maria Graham Gates. 945 Jesse M. Gates, b. April 1, 1873. 946 Burton L. Gates, b Oct. 6, 1875. 947 Laura M. Gates, b. June 16, 1877-