The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-10-15
THE WEATHER

1 tees, and did all that could be done to
 accomplish his purpose. His repeal bill once passed the Sen ate, but never both houses, although his last fight was made at the session | of the General Assembly just closed. In his married life Major Boudren was most fortunate His wife died in l 1911, after their golden wedding had l been celebrated. The shock to Major Boudren was very great and he never afterward was quite the same man. The funeral will take place Friday from the residence. The Grand Army and the post will escort the casxet to its last resting place in Mountain Grove cemetery.
 A delegation from the New York l Commandery of the Loyal Legion is expected, and the Army and Navy Club of Connecticut, of which he was l a member, will also be represented Major Boudrens ancestors on his fathers side were among the Huge nots, who ernfgrated from France to Ireland in the early Seventeenth. cen tury. There his father, Michael Boudren married, coming to America in 1928. In Newark, ". IT, Major Boudren was born, Jan 3, 1882. By the death of his father he was compelled, when but nine years of age, to begin to earn his own living He became an errand boy. At fifteen he was apprenticed to the trade of making carriage lamps, in Newark He followed this trade continuously. except during the interval marked by the Civil war. He was the last of the original makers of carriage lan1ua. Tn 1852 he removed to this city, and en- tered the service of the Bradley a- White Manufacturing Company, at Broad and Cannon streets, where be remained until 1859, when he went to Philadelphia and engaged in the bzIsf- ness of lamp making on his own ac- count. At the outbreak of the Civil war he closed out his business, and became military instructor for several organizations. He drilled the zsfh offered a commission by Governor Curtin.
 Upon his return to BrfdgsSort he was appointed instructor Of Capt. Spidelfs Company, Fourth Connect cut Regiment, Volunteer Infantry, which was then being recruated, and when this company was ready for the
 field he assisted Col Richard B9fz- gibbons to raise Company I, Sixth Connecticut Regiment, Volunteer In- fantry, and of this was commissioned captain. He took part in the opera uons of the Federal army around Charleston, S. C., on James Island, the investing of Fort Pulaski and the bat tie of Pocatai4go, in 1882. Later he was in the recruiting service Al
 
 ganized the depot for drafted men for the states of Rhode Island and Con necticut. In 1868 he resigned his commission from the Sixth Connectf- cut, to accept Commission as cap tain of the Twenty Fna United States colored troops, tea Regiments of which were organizess under the di rect supervision of the war depart nerf, by gpecta1 ac& Of 4congress While connected with t11fs orxaufzs~=- al Are, as major, and served in the defense of Newberne, N. C., and in the De partment of Florida He was also ordnance officer on the stan of Gen eral Asboth, commanding the depart ment of Western Florida After four years and three months of service he was honorably. discharged at the end of the war.
 Returning to Bridgeport he became superintendent of the White Manufac- turing Company, one of the oldest and best known of Bridgeport corpora tions. For many years he was presf- dent of this company, holding the of flee until his death The company was established in 1882. and manu- factures carriage hardware and hearse mountings.
 In politics Major Boudren was a Republican, and was president in 1856 of the first Young Mems Republican club in Bridgeport, but never held O111C6s An6 AelleE years of his life he was the candidate of his party for representative.
 He was devoted member of Elias Howe, Jr., Post c. A. R.. and for twenty-seven years had 8 record of perfect attendance, except when he was incapacitated by illness. He was senior vice commander of the Grand Army of the Republic of the Depart ment of Connecticut in 1898, and was elected department commander for Connecticut in 1902.
 The later years of his life were de- voted to opposing the practice of vac cination. He was a vice president of the National Anti-Vaccfnation As sociat1on and known all over the world in connection with this move nent.
 He was married in Bridgeport, April 24, 1854, to Elizabeth North whose death, which occurred in 1911, was a severe blow to him.
 He is survived by two daughters and two granddaughters. The daugh- ters are Miss Sara A. Boudren. who resides at her fathers home and BIra- Elizabeth North Libby, whose daugh- ters are the Misses Bessie and Helene Libby.