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his wife in visits to different parts of the country. While 

 in active business he always took his own vacations in 

 the winter time. During the summer months he man- 

 aged the large business interests of his firm, giving his 

 partners opportunity to have their vacations in the 

 summer. He gave oversight to the mills of the com- 

 pany and made repeated visits to Boston, New York, 

 Philadelphia and Baltimore to make sales of lumber 

 and collections from buyers such business being then 

 done more personally than in later years. 



When Prof. Baird of Washington was spending the 

 summer of 1869 at Eastport with his family, and was 

 planning for Mr. Boardman to join him on a trip to 

 Grand Manan to pass some days in examining shell- 

 heaps and in hunting for Indian relics, Mr. Boardman 

 explained w^hy he could not accompany him. Writing 

 to Prof. Baird under date of August 28 of that year he 

 says : "I am very sorry I cannot get aw^ay to go with 

 you, but we have so many men at work, our mills are 

 being repaired, there are letters and telegrams to answer 

 every day and it is impossible. My partner, Mr. Todd, 

 has been away for some time with his family and as I 

 take my vacations in the winter I cannot spare the time 

 in summer to be absent from business." This attention 

 to business, however, did not prevent him from having 

 a great deal of company in summer and his house was 

 full of scientific friends for weeks at a time. 



In the period covered by the years 1868 and 1891 Mr. 

 Boardman made seventeen visits to Florida, most of 

 them embracing the entire winter months. On several 

 of these visits Mrs. Boardman accompanied him. He 

 also visited California and the west several times, spent 



