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Complete History of Alpena County, Michigan
by William Boulton, 1876


                           INTRODUCTION
                          
                          William Boulton
                          
        Mr. William Boulton was born in England in 1848 and
   emigrated to Canada with his parents in 1855, later moving
   to Port Huron, Michigan.
   
        In June 1864, at age sixteen, Mr. Boulton arrived at Alpena,
   Michigan, then a village of 674 persons, on the steamer FORREST
   QUEEN, and began working in the mills of the village.
   
        In early 1865, realizing his need for additional education, he
   returned to Canada, where he entered London Commercial College,
   graduating Class A., and then he spent two years in Middlesex
   Seminary at Komoka.  With high recommendations from both insti-
   tutions he returned to Alpena and settled on a homestead about four
   miles from the village.
   
        From 1873 until 1880 he printed, in his log home, a 6" X
   10" - 4 page paper the FROLIC making delivery in the Townships
   and Village on his bicycle or on foot.
        
        In 1874 he was elected Alpena Township Clerk.
        
        He bought a lot in Broadwell's Addition to the City in 1875
   and became associated with the weekly newspaper ARGUS, writing
   and publishing feature articles dealing with the early history
   of the Thunder Bay region.
   
        June 2, 1876 he published his first history of Alpena County
   and in 1895 published a revised and more complete edition.
   
        Mr. Boulton was an ardent photographer and, in July 1893,
   published a "SOUVENIR" of the City containing many full page
   pictures of the area.  Most of his 5"x 8" and 5"x 9" glass negatives
   have been preserved and are a valuable source of historical material
   of the area.
   
        Mr. Boulton died in Alpena on March 22, 1921 at age
   seventy-two and was buried from Trinity Episcopal Church with
   Masonic honors.
                                Fred R. Trelfa
                                
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