Thomas G. Bolton, business man, agriculturist, druggist, editor and city official, for many years exerted a strong influence upon the affairs of Plainview and the surrounding territory. As a business man he was ever alive to Plainview's best interest; as a druggist he was accurate, courteous and obliging; as a newspaper man he labored constantly for the progress of the village; as an official he succeeded in introducing a number of municipal improvements; and as an agriculturist he foresaw the future and ever urged the breeding of better stock and the adoption of constantly improving methods.
He was born in Logan, Ohio, November 12, 1843, the son of Graham and Nancy (Miller) Bolton. The father was born in Couny Derry, Ireland, in 1816, and died in 1852. He was married in New Jersey, in 1837, to Nancy Miller, who, like himself, was a native of County Derry, Ireland, and born in the same year, on April 19, 1816. She had come to America as a girl and met Mr. Bolton for the first time in New Jersey. In 1842, accompanied by their two first born children, Ruth and John, they settled in Logan County, Ohio. Later two other children were born to them, Thomas G. and Martha ...
History of Wabasha County, Minnesota
Franklin Curtiss-Wedge, Compiler,
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The Kent Advertiser Journal
March 22, 1923Mrs. Lucinda Burke, widow of the late M. M. Burke, passed away last Saturday, March 17, 1923, at the age of seventy seven years in Seattle. Mrs. Burke was an old time resident of Kent, going from here to Duvall where she made her home with her daughter.
Deceased leaves four children, Mrs. Effie platt and Mrs. A. L. Miller both of Duvall; Mrs. william Weber, of Casper, Wyoming and one son Howard Burke of Casper, Wyoming.