Hi Listers.. An index to the biographies in the History of Barron County, 1922, and those previously submitted are available at the following: http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/wi/barron/bios.htm Transcribed by Peg Lamkin, brinwood@chibardun.net. Edited and submitted by Victor Gulickson. Clinton A. Boardman, pioneer, inventor, and founder of Boardman, St. Croix county, Wisconsin, was born in Vermont, and as a young man married Margaret A. Spence, a native of Canada. They came West in the fifties and settled in St. Croix county, this state, where was started the village which now bears his name. He farmed and had a saw mill and grist mill. In his saw mill he invented and manufactured the Boardman extension ladder, which became known and used all over the country and which is the model upon which all modern extension ladders are built. He is now dead, and his wife is still living. In the family there were nine children: Ellen is the wife of William Stevens of Glenwood, this state. Stephen C. is secretary and Grant C., head miller of the New Richmond Roller Mills Co., New Richmond, Wis. John C. is a traveling salesman living at Tacoma, Wash. Isabell is the wife of J. T. Lightfoot, living at Glenwood, Wis. Raymond C. is a business man of Barron, Wis. Samuel C. is a traveling salesman living at Glenwood City. --Taken from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper, Jr., & Co., 1922, pg. 88.