Charles Boarman (pioneer)
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Born | Martinsburg, Virginia, United States | October 28, 1828||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | November 22, 1880 | (aged 52)||||||||||||||||||||||
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Dr. Charles Boarman (October 28, 1828 – November 22, 1880) was an American pioneer and frontier physician. He was among the original pioneers to settle in present-day Amador County, California, serving as its first county physician from 1863 until 1880, and was one of the founding members of the Society of California Pioneers. He was also the son of Rear Admiral Charles Boarman and uncle of fellow pioneer doctor Charles B. Harris.
Biography
Charles Boarman was born in
In early 1859, Boarman and his family moved to
He was a charter member of the Amador Society of California Pioneers and presided over the Amador County chapter's first session in Jackson, California on September 9, 1877. Boarman spent seventeen years as the county physician until his death on November 22, 1880,[1] while fighting a smallpox epidemic.[3][4] His wife Mary Ann died in San Francisco in December 1897, and was buried in Jackson alongside her late husband and mother. Their daughter Emma, with her husband James J. Wright, occupied the family home and, as of 1928, was the last of the family still living in the region.[2]
References
- ^ ISBN 0-7385-5602-5
- ^ a b "Dr. Charles Boarman". History of Amador County. Federation of Amador County Women's Clubs, April 1927. (pg. 94–95)
- ^ a b Mason, Jesse D. History of Amador County, California: With Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers. Thompson & West, 1881. (pg. 106–107, 200, 282, 339)
- Newspaper Abstractswebsite