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his gentle and courteous manners. With a keen insight 

 into human nature, he was yet so full of love and charity 

 that no one living can remember of him an unjust or an 

 unkind word. All, even the little child, were made 

 happier and better by his loving, cheerful presence. To 

 his large family his loss will be very great ; for his life 

 to them has been a continual benediction. The same 

 smile, the warm grasp of the hand, the loving words of 

 welcome were never forgotten until strength and memory 

 failed. Blessed beyond words has his pure life been to 

 them. May the mantle of his charity and cheerful faith 

 enwrap them all as they leave him in repose and again 

 mingle in the turmoil of life." 



Before closing this chapter it may be of interest to 

 mention — although this memoir is in no sense a genea- 

 logical history of the family — that Savage says that 

 Daniel Bordman who was married at Ipswich, Mass., 

 April 12, 1662, "was a brother of Thomas called Bore- 

 man ; and also Samuel Boreman (Borman, Boardman) 

 who was at Ipswich in 1639 and who went to Weathers- 

 field, Conn., in 1642 and founded the Connecticut family 

 of Boardmans, who was a brother of Thomas, who settled 

 in Ipswich in 1634." It is the purpose of this memoir 

 only to bring down the family branch from which the 

 naturalist of the St. Croix descended, but the above is 

 mentioned as an interesting fact in the family history. 



The parents of George A. Boardman lived to celebrate 

 their golden wedding as did his brother William, who 

 married Mary Quincy, who celebrated their golden 

 wedding August 5, 1890. His sister Anna and husband, 

 Henry F. Eaton, celebrated their golden wedding October 

 17, 1892 and Mr. Boardman celebrated his December 19, 



