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SOURCE: History of St. Clair County, Mich.
        A. T. Andreas & Co., Chicago - 1883

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         MAJ. N. S. BOYNTON is a native of this county, and was born in
      Port Huron June 23, 1837.  His father, GRANVILLE F. BOYNTON, was a
      native of New York State, and came here about the year 1827.  He
      died in 1846.  His mother, FRANCES RENDT BOYNTON, who is still
      living, was a daughter of old Capt. LEWIS RENDT, for a long time in
      the British Army, and one of the early pioneers of this county, well-
      known to the early settlers.  Maj. BOYNTON, when a boy, attended
      the primitive district schools during the winter months.  In 1852,
      went to Waukegan, Ill., and passed through the high school in that
      city.  He is practically a self-educated man.  Before reaching his
      majority, he engaged in mercantile business, the firm being INSLEE
      & BOYNTON.  In 1859, he went to Cincinnati, and married Miss ANNIE
      FIDELEI, of that city.  In 1862, he returned to this county and en-
      listed as a private in Company C, Eighth Michigan Cavalry.  He was
      soon promoted to First Lieutenant of Company L, then to Captain, and
      for meritorious service in the capture of the rebel Gen. JOHN MORGAN
      in Ohio, and gallant conduct in the East Tennessee and Georgia cam-
      paigns, was commissioned Major of his regiment.  After a service of
      three years, and the close of the war, he was mustered out, and re-
      turned to this county, making his home in Marine City.  Soon after
      his return, he was appointed Deputy Assessor of Internal Revenue, and
      Postmaster of that village.  In the fall of 1868, he was elected to
      the Lower House of the State Legislature.  He held the office of
      Village Clerk in 1866, and that of President in 1867.  The following
      year he was elected Supervisor of the township.  In 1869, he returned
      to Port Huron and engaged in newspaper business until the summer of
      1871.  He then engaged in real estate and insurance business for some
      years.  In 1874, he was elected Mayor of Port Huron, and again re-
      elected in 1875 to the same office; was President of the Board of
      Education for two years, and member of the same body for four years.
      He invented the BOYNTON Fire Escape and Hook and Ladder Truck, and
      the BOYNTON system of Wire Rope Trussing for Fire Ladders, which are
      used in some of the principal cities of this country and Canada.  He
      now has the superintendence in this State of the business of Sheldon
      & Co., Book Publishing House, New York, and holds the position of
      Great Record Keeper of the Knights of the Maccabees, a flourishing
      beneficiary society.  He has five children, viz.; CHARLES L., ANNIE
      L., GEORGE H., FRANKIE and EDITH S.

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