no relationship to me... and I have no further info. How is this Boggs related to Gov. Boggs, or the Boggs of KY? In 1824 Lilburn W. Boggs, at the age of eighteen, migrated from New England to St. Louis, a row of wooden buildings along the riverfront and the seat of the fur trade. He married into the fur trade group. His wife was JULIA ANN BENT, daughter of SILAS BENT. She died at an early age. In St. Louis, Boggs was named cashier of the Mission Bank. This was a nice start for the ambitious man, but Boggs did not conform to that mold; he was an adventurer and the frontier called. In 1826 he landed at Fort Osage, then known as Sibley, and became engaged in merchandising in the riverfront town. It was here that he married his second wife, PANTHEA GRANT BOONE, a granddaughter of DANIEL BOONE. From here they moved to Independence and he became a frontier merchant. As a popular citizen, he was appointed the first clerk of Jackson County, and his handwritings are to be seen in the first records. He wrote the contract for the first courthouse, as well as other buildings. As a merchant he was an agent for a patent medicine. In his advertising he claimed that his medicine was "unequaled in powers in eliminating from the human system, all the poisonous juices" and was good for "scrofula, white swelling, rheumatism and liver complaints." (1) It is not known just where his store was located, but his home was on South Spring, across from a large public spring, which gave the street its name. 1. Hickman, History of Jackson county, p. 251

Joanne Scobee Morgan wrote: > no relationship to me... and I have no further info. > How is this Boggs related to Gov. Boggs, or the Boggs of KY? > > In 1824 Lilburn W. Boggs, at the age of eighteen, migrated from New > England to St. Louis, a row of wooden buildings along the riverfront and > the seat of the fur trade. He married into the fur trade group. His wife > was JULIA ANN BENT, daughter of SILAS BENT. She died at an early age. In > St. Louis, Boggs was named cashier of the Mission Bank. This was a nice > start for the ambitious man, but Boggs did not conform to that mold; he > was an adventurer and the frontier called. Where does the information that he came to Missouri from New England come from, what is the citation. Lilburn W. Boggs was born in Kentucky. He may well have moved to New England at an early age (this branch of the Boggs family was gripped by wanderlust); but I'd like to have source of information if possible. Does anyone know what Gov. Lilburn W.'s middle name was for certain? All Missouri references I've seen cite him as Lilburn Wycliff (or Wycliffe) Boggs. But all California references I've seen state his name as being Lilburn Williams Boggs. I suspect that the California "Williams" reference may be a confusion relating to his grandson born in 1848 (by William Montgomery Boggs and Sonora Louise Hicklin) who was also named Lilburn W. Boggs; but I have not confirmed this. This branch of the Boggs family seemed to use family names as middles names--but not necessarily the names of any closely related families--rather strange. > > In 1826 he landed at Fort Osage, then known as Sibley, and became > engaged in merchandising in the riverfront town. It was here that he > married his second wife, PANTHEA GRANT BOONE, a granddaughter of DANIEL > BOONE. From here they moved to Independence and he became a frontier > merchant. > As a popular citizen, he was appointed the first clerk of Jackson > County, and his handwritings are to be seen in the first records. He > wrote the contract for the first courthouse, as well as other buildings. > As a merchant he was an agent for a patent medicine. In his advertising > he claimed that his medicine was "unequaled in powers in eliminating > from the human system, all the poisonous juices" and was good for > "scrofula, white swelling, rheumatism and liver complaints." (1) It is > not known just where his store was located, but his home was on South > Spring, across from a large public spring, which gave the street its > name. > > 1. Hickman, History of Jackson county, p. 251 Are there any descendants of Lilburn W. Boggs on the list? I have some family information from oddball sources that I'd be happy to swap. -- Bob Birchard bbirchard@earthlink.net http://www.mdle.com/ClassicFilms/Guest/birchard.htm