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Douglass Boardman

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in his honor. Boardman's widow and daughter gifted the university 12,415 volumes for the new law library, said to be "one of the most complete in the world" at the time. Boardman Hall was demolished in 1959 and Olin Library was built in its place. A set of sculpted stone heads were salvaged from
97:, and in the latter years of his life had peculiarly trying responsibilities as the executor of the large estates of Mr. McGraw and his daughter, Mrs. Fiske. He died, after a very brief illness, from pneumonia, at 77:, which he held for two or three years from January, 1848; and for four years from January, 1852, he was County Judge and Surrogate. For ten years from January, 1856, he practiced law in partnership with the Hon. 81:
In the fall of 1865 he was elected a justice of the Supreme Court of New York for a term of eight years; at the expiration of which time he was re-elected without opposition for a new term of fourteen years.
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He was a director of the First National Bank of Ithaca from the date of its organization, in 1864, and became its president in 1884. He was made a trustee of
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in 1889 he was appointed its dean, and became active and efficient in promoting its success. He held many other trusts in
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He was married, on May 27, 1846, to Amanda M. Vincent, of Ithaca, who survived him, with their only child, a daughter.
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by vote of the alumni in 1875, and was re-elected by the trustees in 1885. On the organization of
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In 1893, the newly constructed law building at Cornell University, designed by
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Boardman, the youngest in a family of twelve children, was born in
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in October, 1845, and his first public office was the
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Supreme Court of New York
Cornell Law School
Covert
Seneca County, New York
Hobart College
Yale College
Ithaca, New York
Trumansburg
bar
District Attorneyship
Tompkins County
Francis M. Finch.
Cornell University
Cornell Law School
Ithaca
Sheldrake
Seneca County, New York

Boardman House

Italianate townhouse
DeWitt Park
Ithaca College
William Henry Miller
Boardman House
"Ithaca College Is Born"


"Olin's Predecessor: Boardman Hall"

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