Truman Boardman (February 7, 1810 – April 21, 1895) was an American farmer and politician from New York.

Life

He was the son of Allyn Boardman (1774–1837), a tanner and

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who came from

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to Western New York in 1799, and Phoebe (Woodworth) Boardman (1776–1851). Truman Boardman was born in that part of the Town of Ovid, in

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, which was separated in 1817 as the Town of Covert. On June 5, 1834, he married Aurelia Chloe Whiting (1810–1893), and they had four children. He was elected Supervisor of the Town of Covert in 1849, 1851 and 1852. He was a member of the

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(26th D.) in

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and

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. In 1863, he removed to

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. He was a member of the

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(Tompkins Co.) in

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. His brother, Supreme Court Justice

Douglas Boardman Douglass Boardman (October 31, 1822 – September 5, 1891) was an American jurist and lawyer who served on the Supreme Court of New York and as Dean of Cornell Law School. Biography Boardman, the youngest in a family of twelve children, was born i ...

(1822–1891), was the first Dean of

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, and lived in the

Boardman House (Ithaca, New York) The Boardman House is a historic house located at 120 East Buffalo Street in Ithaca, Tompkins County, New York. It is part of the De Witt Park Historic District.https://www.historicithaca.org/post/boardman-house Description and history The ...

Sources

''The New York Civil List''
compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough, Stephen C. Hutchins and Edgar Albert Werner (1867; pg. 442)
''Biographical Sketches of the State Officers and Members of the Legislature of the State of New York in 1859''
by William D. Murray (pg. 36ff)

transcribed from ''Landmarks of Tompkins County, NY'' (1894)

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