St. Paul daily globe., 1892-03-12
THE GOVERNORS LIFE.
His Early Career, His Children,
His Farms and His Law Busi-

His Farms and His Law Busi-
ness.
Horace Boies was born on farm near
Aurora. some eighteen miles southeast
of Buffalo, in Erie county, Dec. Z, 1927.
His parents were American born,
though the ancestry of his father was
remotely French and that of his mother
distinctly English. His father had set
tied in Erie county soon after the war
of 1912, in which he had been common
soldier. The family had two farms, one
OF sixty acres and the other of fifty
acres. At that time the county of Erie
was considered region of the far West.
1t was heavily timbered and but
sparsely populated.
Only the pioneers among the emf
grants of those days reached this re-
mote land. AS rule they were peo-
pie without much money and bought
their farms OH credit. The Boies fam
lily was not rich, and made only part
payment upon the two pieces of prop
erty which they acquired. Besides
Horace, there were two other boys and
three girls In the family. All had to
work upon the farm. To make the
land of any value they had first to cut
uOWn luO llHlOClt OldS ~ away
and burn the stumps. All this labor to
prepare the soil for tiling took time.
So aborious and slow was the work
that the results which came to Farmer
BoieS and his sturdy sons were meagre.
And so it happened that they were
unable to meet their payments and they
lost one of the pieces of land. Young
Horace was then sixteen years old, and
he made up his mind it would be much
better for him and for his family if he
could get further west and earn some
money for himself.
When he landed at Racine he had Is
cents in his pocket, and all his baggage
was done up in red Dandana. He
made Inquiries at the little settlement
in the wilderness on the shore and
found that there was family some tif-
teen miles inland that needed hand.
His experiences with the family were
unpleasant and disheartening, but Gov.
BoieS says today that he is glad that he
encountered them.
"The miseries which endured during
that month";" he relates, ''were of a
kind that suppose many another boy
has undergone. They made my life
wretched, but they opened my eyes, and
gave me all understanding of the suffer
llIES NlliCIl pun oiC W
bear. | suppose that nothing else in
my career has softened my heart so
much, and made Inc have such sym
pathy for those who have little or no
money, and are unfortunate in their
struggles to gain living"
His experiences with the family
twenty miles further inland were just
the reverse of those which he had just
undergone. They received him kindly,
they treated him as one of their own.
Week after week the boy from Erie
county toiled in that rough Wisconsin
land, an then, possessed with desire to
get still further West, arranged with
his employers son to go to Iowa and do
some trapping.
A few days before they were to set
out On their journey, letter came from
home saying that his mother was dam
gerouSly ill. The boy decided to re-
turn Immediately to Aurora. He can
celled his engagement to go into Iowa,
and gave notice to his employer of his
purpose TO 90 home.
He went into lawyers Office in
Springville, one of the towns near his
fathers home. and took up Blackstone.
He opened an office with SIS worth of
law books and wife to support. She
was the girl who had induced him to
study law. She was Miss Adella King,
and she was the best sort of partner
that the young lawyer could have had.
The practice that came to him at first
was that which one meets with in
Justices court. He was glad to get it.
He treated each case with the greatest
possible care. He made a reputation as
an honest, earnest, indefatigable attor-
ney, diligent in every respect and ever
combative in clients interest.
A fter short time Mr.. Boies moved
to Hamburg, town nearer Buffalo.
His practice became greater and more
remunerative each year. Finally he
moved to Buffalo. One with whom he
became acquainted there was Grover
Cleveland. AT that time there was
nothing to indicate that the mantle of
distinction would ever fall upon either
Cleveland or Boies. They were young
lawyers making the best of their oppor-
tunities, just the same as scores OF other
young lawyers are today in various
parts of the country. Mr.. Cleveland
was assistant district attorney in Erie
county during the closing years of the
war. In 1866 Mr.. Cleveland was nomi-
trct attorney. The opposing party, or
rather the leaders of it in the south
towns of the county, were anxious that
Mr.. Boies should run against Cleveland.
Mr.. Boies consented. In the nominal
ing convention he received the support
of all the delegates from the north and
the south towns. Lyman K. Bass, how
ever, was voted for by the delegates of
the city itself, and secured the nomina-
tion by two majority. Curiously enough,
Mr.. Bass was Cleveland'S partner, and
defeated him at the polls.