Hon. George Craighead Boggs and Martha E. Frye

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Husband Hon. George Craighead Boggs ^{1 2}

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           Born: 13 Feb 1847 - Union Twp, Washington Co, PA 2
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         Father: John Boggs (1813-1891) 2
         Mother: Elizabeth Wilson (Abt 1814-1899) 2

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       Marriage: 16 Dec 1869 3

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Wife Martha E. Frye ^{1 3}

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         Father: West Frye (1818-Bef 1893) 4 5
         Mother: Christena Van Voorhis (1821-Bef 1893) 5 6

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Children

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1 M John M. Boggs ³

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         Spouse: Kittie B. Robertson (      -      ) 3

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2 F Martha Mildred Boggs ³

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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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3 F Helen Boggs ³

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         Spouse: Lt. Orson L. Early (      -      ) 3

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4 M Harley Boggs ³

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General Notes: Husband - Hon. George Craighead Boggs

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He was born within one and a half miles of Finleyville, on the old Boggs farm, in Union Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania.

He attended the district schools in Union Township while he continued at home on the farm, and later took a course in the Academy at California, Pennsylvania, and also a business course at Duff's Commercial College, Pittsburgh. Thus equipped he accepted a clerkship with the Hamlin Keogler Company Glass Works at Pittsburgh, where he remained twenty months, giving up the position on account of failing health. After regaining his health he became a traveling salesman for Pittsburgh manufacturers, and traveled in fifteen states, stopping only at the large cities. At the end of three years he resigned, got married, took "Greeley 's advice" and went West. On January 1, 1870, he arrived with his wife in Iowa, locating at Russell, in Lucas County, engaging there in the grain, lumber and milling business and investing in farm lands, which he had put under cultivation by tenants. In 1888 he removed from Lucas County to Des Moines, where he turned his attention to dealing in real estate and became financially interested in the coal and oil industries. In 1891 he returned to Washington County, Pennsylvania, in order to care for important business interests there, but a yearly trip was necessary to Des Moines, as that was his legal residence and he continued to have many interests there also. Mr. Boggs was one of the founders of the First National Bank at Finleyville, which was organized September 22, 1902, and served for twenty-eight months as its first president, and was long a stockholder.
From early manhood, Mr. Boggs was an earnest supporter of the principles of the Republican party and frequently was elected to township offices, school offices, and also that of president of the Lucas County Agriculture Society, although he never sought any of them. During the winter of 1882-3, while sojourning in Florida, his friends in Iowa put forward his name for representative in the legislature, which proved acceptable, as he was easily elected in the autumn of that year, served with distinction and was re-elected. The legislature took possession of the fine new state house at Des Moines during his first term. At the close of his second term he retired from public life and thereafter devoted himself to travel and to many interests, both of a business and social nature.
He was a member of Chariton Lodge No. 63, A. F. & A. M., at Chariton, Iowa, and of the Des Moines Consistory No. 3, at Des Moines, Iowa. He and wife were members of the Presbyterian Church in that city.

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General Notes: Wife - Martha E. Frye

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Des Moines, IA

She was an extensive traveler and had many beautiful and curious articles gathered both in her own and in foreign lands. She was well known in the literary world as the author of two interesting romances. One of these she named "A Romance of the New Virginia, or Margaret Steyne," which was published in 1896. The other, bearing the title of "Jack Crews," was published in 1899. Besides the two romances she wrote many interesting articles, especially on what she saw, heard and learned during her travels in the Philippines, in China and in Japan.

1 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 503.

2 Joseph F. McFarland, 20th Century History of Washington and Washington County, Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1910), Pg 1250.

3 Joseph F. McFarland, 20th Century History of Washington and Washington County, Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1910), Pg 1253.

4 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 502.

5 John S. Van Voorhis, The Old and New Monongahela (Pittsburgh, PA: Nicholson, Printer and Binder, 1893), Pg 196.

6 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 633.