Butte County
Biographies
WILLIAM T. BOULWARE
A
hard-working pioneer and ultimately an extensive ranchman and stockman, who
broke into new paths and attained a corresponding success and prosperity, was
William T. Boulware, always a true-blue Republican,
and at the same time, a citizen of most progressive ideas and ideals. He was a native of Peoria,
Ill., of Scotch and English descent, and crossed the
plains in an ox-team train from Iowa
in 1854. His wife’s maiden name was
Martha Hulbert, and she was a native of Kalamazoo,
Mich., of English descent, and she preceded
Mr. Boulware somewhat earlier in the same year,
journeying across the prairies in like primitive fashion with her father,
Isaiah Hulbert. The couple
met in California
and were married in the Bear River section, Placer
County, near Auburn,
in November, 1855.
William T. Boulware first located on a ranch south of Oroville, and
later bought a hundred sixty acres north of
Gridley. To this he added until he owned
over three thousand five hundred acres, and there he farmed many years, making
a specialty of raising fine horses. He
even built a racetrack on the place and bred and trained some fast trotters and
pacers. All this was accomplished
although, when he arrived in California he had only one
yoke of oxen; and when he died, on January 1, 1913, he owned land also in Shasta
County, and at one time had owned as much as
five thousand acres, mostly in Butte County. He was therefore decidedly a self-made man,
and as a broad-minded citizen with political sympathies which enabled him to go
beyond the ambitions of his party, he was at all times a warm supporter of
everything making for the advancement of the community in which he lived. Mrs. Boulware died
October 23, 1916, aged eighty years, a remarkable woman, hale and hearty, and
in charge of her affairs till her death.
The old home
still stands where the eight children of Mr. And Mrs. Boulware,
six of whom are still living, were born, and on this home ranch lives Caleb
Newton Boulware.
Broderick De Kalb is deceased; Mrs. Rebecca B. Moore lives at Oakland;
Mrs. Ellen Serviss dwells at Gridley; Thomas M. is
another son; and Mrs. Mary A. Tipton has her home in Hammonton,
Cal.; while Mrs. Belle D. Amos is in Los
Angeles County;
Louise Jane is dead.
Transcribed
by Roseann Kerby.
Source: "History of
Butte County, Cal.," by George C. Mansfield, Page 1032, Historic Record Co, Los Angeles, CA, 1918.
© 2008 Roseann Kerby.
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