BOGET, J. H.

BOGET, ELDRIDGE

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Date: 4/15/2013 at 15:00:43

BOGET, J. H. - (Lives with his son A.E.) P.O. Searsboro. Was born in Washington county, State of New York, on the 17th day of April, 1812, at which place he continued to live, engaged in agricultural pursuits until he was thirty-nine years of age, when, in the year 1851, he removed to McHenry county, Illinois, where he lived about four years and removed to Walworth county, Wisconsin, where he remained one year, and removed to Iowa, settling in Johnson county, north and west of Solon. Here he purchased land and continued to live until the year 1869, when he sold out and removed to this county, where he owns an 80 acre farm. He was married about 1833 to Miss Nancy A. Eldridge, with whom he lived until the year 1863, when she died, and by whom he had five children, whose names are: Ellis J., Albert E., Charles C., Daniel H., Nancy A. Mr. Boget is a man of intelligence, and from his appearance has been a man of great endurance.