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a number of winters in Minnesota and made some winter 

 visits to Clifton Springs, N. Y., at the sanatorium in that 

 place whose proprietor, Dr. Foster, was an intimate friend 

 of Mr. Boardman. Mr. Charles A. Boardman, Mr. 

 Boardman's eldest son, lived in Florida a number of 

 years where he was largely interested in railroads, 

 orange growing and hotels and it was there his parents 

 spent several winters with him. In the course of busi- 

 ness changes at St. Stephen four of the five living 

 children of Mr. and Mrs. Boardman had gone to Minne- 

 apolis and they were naturally anxious that their parents 

 should make their home in that city. Mrs. Boardman 

 was also desirous of living there as Mr. J. Clark Taylor, 

 the husband of her only daughter, was in business in 

 that city and it was very natural that Mrs. Boardman 

 wished to be near her. 



Consequently, in 1881, Mr. Boardman sold his house 

 and real estate in St. Stephen to the treasurer of the St. 

 Stephen cotton mill company and spent the winter in 

 Palatka, Florida, at the home of his son. The next 

 spring they returned to Calais for a short time and then 

 went to Minneapolis for a year, living with Mrs. Taylor. 

 While in Minneapolis, although Mr. Boardman did not 

 intend to make it his future home, he purchased the 

 fine lot facing on Oak Grove street in that city, running 

 through to Fifteenth street which was the line of Central 

 Park, now called Eoring Park, which was about the 

 choicest lot in Minneapolis at that time. 



On June 2, 1883, Mr. and Mrs. Boardman left the 

 west on their return to Calais where they spent the 

 summer, but in the autumn of that year they again 

 went to Florida for the winter. In the spring of 1884 



