William Lyman Boughton

Male28 August 1834–

Brief Life History of William Lyman

When William Lyman Boughton was born on 28 August 1834, in Rush, Monroe, New York, United States, his father, Charles Stone Boughton, was 31 and his mother, Caroline Lettice Markham, was 26.

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Family Time Line

Charles Stone Boughton
1803–1841
Caroline Lettice Markham
1807–1875
Homer Boughton
1831–1912
Horace Boughton
1833–1891
William Lyman Boughton
1834–
Gertrude Boughton
1837–1878

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    World Events (3)

    1836 · Remember the Alamo

    Age 2

    Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.

    1846

    Age 12

    U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.

    1917 · Women Given the Right to Vote in New York

    Age 83

    Voters in New York approve a bill giving women the right to vote. This is passed three years prior to the 19th amendment to the U.S. Constitution which allowed women to vote nationwide.

    Name Meaning

    English: habitational name from any of numerous places so named. Those in Cambridgeshire (formerly Huntingdonshire), Lincolnshire, Norfolk, Northamptonshire, and Nottinghamshire are named from Old English bucc ‘goat’ or the Old English byname Bucca with the same meaning (see Buck 1) + Old English tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’; those in Cheshire and Kent are named with Old English bōc ‘beech’ + tūn.

    Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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