Boardman was born on May 19, 1834, to Nathaniel and Sarah (Hunt) Boardman in Norwich, Vermont.[1]
Business life
Boardman was vice-president of the North Star Construction Company organized in 1890 that built significant portions of the Duluth and Winnipeg Railroad based in Duluth, Minnesota. In 1893 when the Canadian Pacific Railway took control of D & W, Boardman became president of the troubled railroad.
Family life
Boardman married Georgia M. Hinman on November 6, 1861, they had two children, Flora M. Boardman, and Emily I. Boardman.[2]
^ abcdeReno, Conrad (1901), Memoirs of the Judiciary and the Bar of New England For the Nineteenth Century, Volume II, Boston, MA: Century Memorial Publishing Company, p. 242
^ abcdeReno, Conrad (1901), Memoirs of the Judiciary and the Bar of New England For the Nineteenth Century, Volume II, Boston, MA: Century Memorial Publishing Company, p. 243
^ abcdA Catalogue of the City Councils of Boston, 1822-1908, Roxbury, 1846-1867, Charlestown 1847-1873 and of The Selectmen of Boston, 1634-1822 also of Various Other Town and Municipal officers, Boston, MA: City of Boston Printing Department, 1909, p. 265
^Toomey, Daniel P. (1892), Massachusetts of Today: A Memorial of the State, Historical and Biographical, Boston, MA: Columbia Publishing Company, p. 124
^Rand, John C., ed. (1890), "Boardman, Halsey J." , One of a Thousand: A Series of Biographical Sketches of One Thousand Representative Men Resident in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, A. D. 1888–'89, Boston: First National Publishing Company, p. 61
^Proceedings of the New England Historic Genealogical Society at the Annual Meeting, 10 January, 1900, with Memoirs of Deceased Members, 1893-1899, Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 7 February 1923, p. xliv
Political offices
Preceded by
Edward Olcott Shepard
President of the Boston Common Council January 4, 1875-January 3, 1876
