James Goble Boardman

Dr. James Goble Boardman, born in Northumberland township, Luzerne county, Pa., June 7, 1836, is a son of Orlando and Ann Goble Boardman, the former a mill-wright, native of Springfield, Mass., of British ancestry; the latter a native of Pennsylvania, of German and Irish antecedents. With his wife and four children he came to this county in 1840, removed to Lee county in the same year, where he died —his wife preceding him to the grave in 1866. Dr. Boardman's boyhood days were passed in Lee county. He was educated in the district schools and at the academy at Paw Paw, Ill. At the age of twenty-three years he began the study of medicine under Dr. E. R. Boardman, of Elmira. Two years later he entered Company B, Nineteenth Illinois Volunteer Infantry, was wounded at Chickamauga, but was in active service for thirty six months. Returning in 1864 he resumed medical studies, and graduated, from Bush Medical College, Chicago, in January, 1805; entered on professional duties at Paw Paw, Lee county, and in 1880 settled at Bradford. His wife, Miss Mary Rule, daughter of John Rule, was born Roxburghshire, Scotland, and married in Bureau county, this state. They are the parents of four sons and one daughter—John R., a school teacher in Fillmore county, Neb.; Orland W., Edwin A., James N. and Jane E. In the pioneer, military and medical chapters of the general history, the settlement and services of the Boardman family in and to the county are recited; in the sketch of Osceola township and Bradford, their religious and social life here is fully given.