Men of mark in Connecticut; ideals of American life told in biographies and autobiographies of eminent living Americans . sident of the Windsor Locks Bank, presi-dent of the Windsor Locks and Warehouse Point Bridge and FerryCompany, director in J. R. Montgomery and Company, and was a di-rector in the Mercantile Bank in Hartford. He has been at differenttimes selectman for four terms and assessor for five years. He is azealous and devoted member of the Congregational Church and aconscientious and liberal philanthropist. In his youth he served forsome time in the state militia and he has always
Men of mark in Connecticut; ideals of American life told in biographies and autobiographies of eminent living Americans . sident of the Windsor Locks Bank, presi-dent of the Windsor Locks and Warehouse Point Bridge and FerryCompany, director in J. R. Montgomery and Company, and was a di-rector in the Mercantile Bank in Hartford. He has been at differenttimes selectman for four terms and assessor for five years. He is azealous and devoted member of the Congregational Church and aconscientious and liberal philanthropist. In his youth he served forsome time in the state militia and he has always maintained a livelyinterest in all patriotic causes. The Soldiers Memorial Hall ofWindsor Locks is his gift to the local post of the Grand Army as amemorial to the heroes of the Civil War. In May, 1839, Mr. Chaffee married Abilena Dunbar. The threechildren born of this marriage died in infancy and Mr. Chaffees familyconsists of one adopted daughter. Their home is at Windsor Locks,where Mr. Chaffee at the ripe age of eighty-eight keeps up his livelyinterest in business and his faithful interest in the public i^^^ trtt^i^ y^ )/ yc^crn^d c^tcc a^cx WILLIAM FRANC IS elOSKPIIBOAHDMAiN BOAKDMAN, WILLIAM FKANCIS JOSEPH, genealogist,retired merchant, and manufacturer, of Hartford, Connecticut,was bom in VVethersfield, Hartford County, Connecticut,December 12, 1828. He traces his ancestry back tlirough seven genera-tions to Samuel Boreman, who came from Claydon near Banbury,Oxfordshire, England, and settletl in Ipswich in 1()3S, and in Wethers-field in IGiO. This Samuel Boreman was deputy to the Ceneral Courtfor thirty-four sessions, and was in many other ways a prominentcolonist, serving as assessor and constable and in other public capaci-ties. In all the intervening generations of descent from Samuel toWilliam F. J. Boardman there were men of stability and line of descent is as follows: Samuel Boreman, 1G15-1G73; Sam-uel Boreman, 1648-1720; Joseph Bordman, 1G
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