Bouton-Boughton Family

4.322 iii. William Ellsworth Boughton, b. New Bruns- wick, N. J., June 26, 1861; went to Chicago, 111., fall of 1878, where he remained for about one year. On returning he obtained a clerkship in a gi'ocery at Asbury Park, N. J., where he has had employ meat most of the time for several years until the pi'esent IJOUTON-BOUGHTON FAMILY, 467 summer of 1889. In the spring of 1889 he was inter- ested with his brother, Charles A. Boughton, in the restaurant business at Auburn, N. Y. 4.323 iv. Clarence Edward Boughton, b. EUzabeth, N. J., Feb. 25, 1863; he was reared at home until summer of. 1878, when he went to learn the printer's trade, at which he worked until the spring of 1884 ; he went to Union Springs, Cayuga county, N. Y., and estab- lished a notion store, which after several months he sold out and took a course at a commercial college, and has filled an accountant's position at Trenton, N. J., since until present 1889. 4.324 V. Mary Melinda Boughton, b. Elizabeth, August 13, 1864; a milliner, and doing business as such at Lakewood, N. J., Sept. 1, 1885, and in 1889 was liv- ing with parents at Trenton, N. J. 4.325 V. Edward Hicks Boughton (son of Thaddeus and Lucy Rockwell Boaghton), b. Washington, Dutchess county, N. Y., Oct. 11, 1819; very early in life he manifested a great desire for literary attainments, which increased with years, and before he had attained the age of sixteen years he had qualified himself for a teacher and entered upon that employ- ment; but, finding it did not meet his taste as a voca- tion, he effected an arrangement with the celebrated Dr. Samuel Thompson, of Geddes, N. Y., the founder of the Thompsonian system of medicine, to learn his system, and practiced for a time at his infirmary. He subsequently practiced that system in Cayuga and the adjoining counties, but not being pleased with the life and duties of a practicing physi- cian, he turned his attention to the art of photogra- phy, which he continued to follow as a business until the death of his brother-in-law, Ebenezer L. Wanzer, in June, 1874; he took up his abode with his sister, Mrs. Wanzer, and turned his attention to farming until her death, in September, 1883, since which, until the present, May 1, 1889, he has lived at Poplar Ridge, Cayuga county, N. Y. 4,826 vi. James Boughton (son of Thaddeus and Lucy Rockwell Boughton), b. Washington, N. Y., Jan. 22, 1822; went with the family to "Victory, N. Y., where he remained, working on the farm with his father. In the winter of 1837-8 there was a revival meeting held in the Methodist church in the neighborhood of 468 BouTON-BouGHTON Family. his home in which he became interest'ed, awakened and converted, but owing to the unwillingness of his father did not unite at that time with the Methodist church. On the following April, in company with a neighboring boy, they set out on foot to go to the city of New York, to find some business more con- genial than a farmer life in Cayuga cormtv. The tender admonitions of a loving mother, on the sepa- ration for a home in the great, wicked city of New York, ever proved a helpful restraint against tiie many evil devices afterward encountered in a life- time in that great centre of immorality. After nearly a year spent in the city and at Dutchess county he returned to Victory for a short time, and then went to Marengo, Wayne county, N. Y., to learn the house carpenter trade with Robert Palmer, of that j^ce. In the autumn of 1839 he again went to New i ork city, in the employ of Dea. Hetfield, of Scotch Plains, N. J., with a drove of sheep, via Milford, Pa. Arriv- ing at New York, obtained employment in grocery store of R. H. Atwell, 881 Broadway, and subse- quently with Benjamin Wooster, of 187 Houston street. New York, where for several years he was employed, during which time the duty oi uniting with the church was felt, and application was made, through the pastor. Elder George Benedict, to unite with tne Norfolk Street Baptist church, then standing on the comer of Norfolk and Broome streets. On Sept. 4, 1842, he was baptized at the head of Water street in the East river, and the same day received into full fellowship of that church. It was here that an acquaintance was formed that eventuated in the marriage of Eliza Jane Terhune (daughter of Richard and Elizabeth TalUck Terhune), of New York city, where she was born May 11, 1825. They were married by Elder George Benedict, in the Norfolk Street Baptist church, at 8 p. m.. May 2, 1844, and departs the following day for their nome on the farm of his father at Victory, N. Y., where they remained until the following April, when they returned to New York city, workmg at the house carpentering business until spring of 1849, when he embarked m the retail grocery business at corner Broome and Lewis streets, remaining but one year in that business, when he secured a clerkship in a whole- sale provision store in West street, comer Murray BOUTON-BOUGHTON FAMILY. 469 where for several years he was employed as sales- man. In spring of 1853 he established himself in the wholesale provision and commission business, which he sold out to join his brother Ruua in the manufac- turing clothing business, and during the business revulsion of 1857 left that business and moved his family on to a farm at Ashkum, Iroquois county, 111., where, after one year, on account of the climate, they were obliged to leave, and returned to Brooklyn, N. Y. In April, 1861, through Mr. William D. Mangum, a prominent officer in the New York Produce Ex- change Co., he obtained the appointment of superin- tendent of that institution, which he held with great satisfaction tohi^employersand to himself for the next twelve years, when , on a reorganization of the insti- tution, he resij^ed his position, against the advice of the leading officers and many of his best friends. Following the resignation of superintendent of New York Produce Exchange he purchased a third interest in the building firm of Hagerman & Alexander, and among the several houses they built the following year was the one for himself, in which he now resides, at 223 Keap street. The firm of Hagerman, Alexander & Bough ton dissolved in spring of 1876, and he organized a grocery business on Fourth street, Brooklyn, which, rfter four years, he closed out at auction, to take a clerkship in a paper commission house in New York city, which he continued until summer of 1885, and in April, 1889, was appointed messenger of the Fifth Avenue Bank, Brooklyn. In the year 1883 his mind was unusually impressed with the subject of the history of his early ancestors, and, with a desire to become better acquainted with it, opened a correspondence with sucn relatives as were known to him, which soon decided him in the undertaking which, after six yeai's of constant appli- cation to the object, has resulted in completing a genealogy of the Boutons and Boughtons of this country which it is hoped will be appreciated to a degree at least approximating the lab.ir and expense he has contributed gratuitously for this object, for the love and respect he bears his race and kindr^. A few items of religious data may here be in place, viz. : Converted at fifteen ; united by baptism in Norfolk street Baptist church Sept. 4, 1842; was 470 BouTON-BouGHTON Family. by removal transferred by letter to the Sixteenth Baptist church New York; and thence to the First Baptist church Williamsburgh (now Brooklyn), Dec. 5, 1856; elected church clerk 1867; elected deacon April 28, 1808; elected treasurer of the Long Island Baptist association June 8, 1869; excluded from First Baptist church for objecting to the introduction by the pastor, Dr. Read, of comic and frivolous amuse- ments in the place of prayer in the ** house of God," July 20, 1875; after Dr. Read's resignation and departure he was restored by a unanimous vote in 1879, which restoration was promoted largely by the influence of the present pastor, Daniel C. Eddy, D.D., wliose most cordial and kindly fellowship has continued unbroken until the present date, 1889. Ghil dren of James and Eliza Jane Terhune Bonghton. 4326 4,327 ii. Emma Eliza Boughton, b. New York city, June 28, 1846, was with her parents at Ashkum, 111., on the farm in 1857-8, returned to Brooklyn autumn of 1858, pursued her studies in Grammar school No. 16, Wilson street, Brooklyn. She received lessons in music at home by Prof. Fox and others. She was con- verted and baptized into the Fii*st Baptist church by Dr. John B. Brackett, May 1, 1863. She married at home, 47 Wilson street, Brooklyn, Jan. 17, 1866, Isaac Leroy Allen (son of Darius and Juliet Beards- ley x\llen), of Brooklyn, where he was born Dec. 29, 1842. Occupation a rope maker; they settled in Brooklyn, and in 1879 moved to Rockville Centre Long Island, and again in 1 883, removed to Brooklyn, 455 (A) 5th street; purchased in Feb., 1888. the house 765 Carroll street, Brooklyn, where they were living in 1889. • She, on moving to Rockville Centre, transferred her membership to the Baptist church of that place, and on removing to Brooklyn transferred her membership to the 6th avenue Baptist church of Brooklyn. He in company with his brother, Theodore B. Allen, built a large rope factory on 3d avenue, Brooklyn, where in 1889 their factory produced 14 tons of rope per day. The 5th Avenue Bank, of Brooklyn, of which he was a director and stock holder, was organized spring of 1889. BOUTON-BOUGHTON FAMILr. 471 Children of Isaac L. and Emma £. Bongrhtoii Allen, of Brooklyn. 4327 4.328 i. Mortimer Leroy Allen, b. Brooklyn, L. I., Kings Co., N. Y., April 8, 1867. At an early a^e his pa- rents wishing to give him the best advantage for a good education sent him to Providence, E. I., to a se- lect school, also to Hempstead, L. I., and subsequently to No, It), Wilson street Grammar school, where in June, 1885, he graduated, and has not at this writing settled upon his future vocation ; he was residing with his parents at 765 Carroll street, Brooklyn, summer or 1889.