Person:Lilburn Boggs (2)

Lake County, California, 1900 census:^[6]

Boggs, Lilbuirn H. Head 50 yrs (b. Feb 1850) (marr. 28 yrs) b. Missouri (parents, b. Missouri/Kentucky) Farmer

      Sarah C. Wife 48 yrs (b. Dec 1851) (5 children, 4 living) b. Missouri (parents, b Virginia/Tennessee)

      Floyd H. Son 26 yrs (b. Oct 1873) (single) b. California (parents, b. Missouri) Asst. Cashier

      Irene M. Dau 25 yrs (b. Apr 1875) (single) b. California (parents, b. Missouri)

      Bent Y. Dau 21 yrs (b. Nov 1878) (single) b. California (parents, b. Missouri)

      Henry C. Son 12 yrs (b. Oct 1887) b. California (parents, b. Missouri) At School

Lake County, California, 1910 census:^[7]

Boggs, Lilburn H. Head 60 yrs (marr. 38 yrs) b. Missouri (parents, b. Missouri/Kentucky) Farmer (General Farm)

      Sarah C. Wife 58 yrs (5 children, 4 living) b. Missouri (parents, b. Virginia/Tennessee)

      Irene M. Dau 34 yrs (single) b. California (parents, b. Missouri)

      Bent Y. Dau 31 yrs (single) b. California (parents, b. Missouri)

Lake County, California, 1920 census:^[8]

Boggs, Lilburn Head 69 yrs b. Missouri (parents, b. Missouri/Kentucky) Farmer (General Farm)

      Sarah Wife 68 yrs b. Missouri (parents, b. Virginia/Tennessee)

      Irene Dau 44 yrs (single) b. California (parents, b. Missouri)

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Napa, California, United States. 1852 California State Census
   p. 18.
2. ↑ Napa, California, United States. 1860 U.S. Census Population Schedule
   p. 68.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3} Find A Grave.

   Lilburn Henry Boggs

4. ↑ California State Registrar. California Death Index, 1905-1939.
5. ↑ ^5.0 5.1 Carpenter, Aurelius O., and Percy H. Millberry. History of Mendocino and Lake Counties California: with biographical sketches of the leading men and women of the counties .. (Los Angeles: Historic Company, 1914)
   pp. 345-46.

   LILBURN H. BOGGS. --- Perhaps in no respect has the progress of Lake county been retarded to a greater degree than in the absence of adequate transportation facilities connecting it with the outside world of activity. As the stage line to the best of its ability grappled with the serious problem of transportation, there were not wanting men of ability and optimism to seriously consider the possibility of constructing a line for steam cars. Always, however, the expensive matter of mountain construction with attendant tunnels has deterred public-spirited men from inaugurating an enterprise. It has been left to Lilburn H. Boggs to display the tremendous energy and undaunted pluck for which several generations of the family have been noted and which found distinguished expression in the life of his grandfather, Governor Lilburn W. Boggs, a pioneer of 1846 in California and alcalde of the northern district of this state. As president of the Clear Lake Railroad Company he is now promoting the construction of a railroad from Lakeport to Hopland, there to connect with the main line of the Northwestern Pacific Railroad. Although the distance is not great the state railroad commission estimates the total cost of construction and equipment at about $750,000 and already $75,000 has been expended by the company in making the survey between the two towns named and in the grading of the road preparatory to the laying of ties. It is the ambition of the president and the other promoters of the enterprise to make it possible to celebrate the completion of the railroad at the time of the great Panama Canal Exposition in 1915, thus enabling visitors to San Francisco at that time to inspect the beautiful scenery and study the natural resources of Lake county, should they be so inclined.
   
   When Henry Carroll and Martha Jane (Young) Boggs started from Jackson county, Mo., to join other members of the Boggs family in California, their son, Lilburn H., was only three months old, his birth having occurred February 4, 1850. During 1864 the family came to Lake county and the father organized the Farmers' Savings Bank, which still is owned and operated by others of the name. Lilburn H. Boggs was educated in public schools, McClure's Academy at Oakland and Heald's Business College in San Francisco. On the organization of the Farmers' Savings Bank in 1875 he became assistant cashier and continued as such for seven years, when he resigned to take charge of the sawmill on a tract of four thousand acres of sugar pine, yellow pine and fir, in which he also had a one-third interest. This tract is located just north of Middletown, on Boggs Mountain, and is wholly within the limits of Lake county. The manufacture of lumber was continued for about five years, and the acreage and forest are still retained. For years Mr. Boggs has been a leader in Democratic councils. As early as 1882 he was elected sheriff and thereupon accepted the office and began to devote his attention to the duties of the office. Twice he was re-elected to the office for consecutive terms and again, after an interval in which there was a Republican victory, he was returned to the ofirce for two more terms, finally retiring in 1895. Throughout the five terms of his incumbency the office was filled with energy, fearlessness and tact, and his long retention as sheriff indicates the popularity which he gained among the people of the county. The family residence of Mr. Boggs on a ranch of three hundred and fifty acres in Big valley is a modern, substantial structure befitting the dignity of the family name. The lady who graciously presides over the home was, prior to her marriage in 1871, Miss Sarah C. Elgin, of St. Helena, Napa county, a native of Missouri and a daughter of W. A. Elgin, a pioneer of St. Helena. There are now four living children, the eldest daughter. Lew, having died at fourteen years of age. Floyd H. is now cashier of the Farmers' Savings Bank at Lakeport, in which the youngest child, Henry Carroll, acts as assistant cashier. The elder daughter, Irene, resides on the home ranch with her parents, and the younger, Bent Y., is the wife of George Voss, a druggist of Lakeport. To the prestige of the family name Lilburn H. Boggs has added by his honorable identification with the development of Lake county and particularly by his public-spirited efforts to secure for it the advantages of a railroad.
   
   In 1890 the [Lakeport] Academy was incorporated, the first board of directors being W. D. Rantz of Scotts Valley, A. M. Reynolds, Marshall Arnold, Lilburn H. Boggs. Milton Wambold, W. A. Maxwell and Frank D. Tunis of Lakeport. Two thousand dollars was subscribed in stock, with which a building was erected on land donated by Mrs Zilphia A. Carly in the north end of Lakeport.

6. ↑ ^6.0 6.1 Lake, California, United States. 1900 U.S. Census Population Schedule
   ED 47, p. 3B, dwelling/family 47/48.
7. ↑ ^7.0 7.1 Lake, California, United States. 1910 U.S. Census Population Schedule
   ED 40, p. 5B, dwelling/family 48/49.
8. ↑ ^8.0 8.1 Lake, California, United States. 1920 U.S. Census Population Schedule
   ED 81, p. 7A, dwelling/family 194/197.