Boynton, James S
soldier, governor, was born May 7, 1833, in Henry county, Georgia. de attained the rank of colonel in the civil war; in 1866 was elected judge of county court, and in 1883 was elected governor of Georgia.
ΒΟΥΝΤΟΝ, JOHN FARNHAM, scientist, inventor, was born Sept. 20, 1811, in Groveland, Mass. He has traveled through every state in the union lecturing on Geology and Natural History of Creation. He has invented a malleable iron and steel and was the original inventor of the oil-well torpedoes. He died Oct. 20, 1890, in Syracuse, N. Y.