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JOSEPH T. BOUGHTON is a son of Noah E. and Polly (Todd) Boughton, and was born in Delaware county, New York, July 4, 1837. His grandfather, Avery Boughton, was a native of New York and resided in Greene county, where his son, Noah E. Boughton (father), was born in 1799. Noah E. Boughton was a farmer by occupation, residing in Greene and Delaware counties, N. Y., until 1870, when he removed to Kansas and purchased a large farm, on which he lived until his death, which occurred January 17, 1890. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church and voted the republican ticket. His wife, Polly Todd Boughton, a daughter of Dudley and Irene Todd, was born in Greene county, N. Y., in 1821 and died August 1, 1851, at the age of thirty years. She was a consistent member of the Methodist Episcopal church.

Joseph T. Boughton was reared on his father’s farm in Delaware county and attended the subscription schools of that period. He began life as a fireman in the employ of a railroad, and was afterward promoted to the position of engineer running on the New York & Lake Erie and the Alton it St. Louis railroads, until 1863, when he enlisted in Co. F., 39th regiment, New York Vols. He served until the close of the war. After he was mustered out of service, he engaged in farming in Chautauqua county, but in 1867, he removed to Butler, Missouri, and run a saw-mill for two years, at the end of which time he returned to New York, locating in Dunkirk township, where he has since made his home. In 1869, he entered the employ of the Brooks’ Locomotive company, one of the important industrial companies in Dunkirk, and remained with them for fourteen years. On account of failing health he was compelled to retire from their service in 1883, and has since that time lived a retired life. He has a pleasant home in the suburbs of Dunkirk, just outside the borough limits. Mr. Boughton is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, and an active democrat. He is a member of the Royal Templars of Temperance and is regarded as one of the straightforward, reliable citizens of the town of Dunkirk.