1882 History of Linn
County, Missouri
BIOGRAPHY
JOHN BOLTON,
Brookfield and Brookfield
Twp., 532
one of Brookfield’s
pioneers, was born in the south of England, January 9, 1815. He is the son of George and Amy Bolton. When sixteen years old he emigrated
to America with his parents,
who located in Onondaga, New York,
then a small town. There he became apprenticed to learn the shoemaker’s trade, serving
two years, when he began to work as a journeyman in the same place. He left Onondaga village in 1839 and located
in Baldwinsville, New York, where he engaged in manufacturing
and dealing in boots and shoes. In
connection with his boot and shoe business he was to
some extent engaged in building, erecting quite a number of residences for
speculation. He resided in Baldwinsville
until June, 1868, when he came to Linn county, Missouri, purchasing an improved farm one and one-half
miles north of Brookfield, and also town-lots in
Brookfield. He immediately built the residence in which
he now lives, near the park, and where he has since resided, excepting one year
on his farm. Since coming to Brookfield
he has been variously employed as a farmer, manufacturer of boots and shoes,
and has dealt some in real estate. He
has built several residences and tenement-houses, and in 1871, in the greatest
fire that ever occurred in Brookfield, he lost
heavily by the burning of his hotel, located near the corner of Main and Brooks streets, where J. C. Post’s hardware
store now stands. He has been twice
married. His first wife was Miss Luthena Barry, of Orange county, New York. Mrs. Bolton died at Baldwinsville, New York,
in 1842, and in 1844 Mr. Bolton was married to Miss
Jane E. Toles, of Baldwinville. They have two children: Emma, wife of Charles
Solomon, of Brookfield, and Arthur J., a
machinist of Brookfield. Himself and wife are
members of Grace Episcopal Church, of Brookfield,
of which he is senior warden.
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