HENRY BOSTON, farmer, post office, New Berlin, was born in Hanover, Germany, 1816. In 1844, he left his native country, coming to America in a sailing vessel, being nine weeks in making the trip; landed in New Orleans, and from there went to St. Louis, by steamer, arriving January 6, 1845, where he engaged to drive team. The following March he came to Island Grove township, where he worked on a farm for Captain James Brown, and remained with him four years; rented land of a man by the name of Staley two years; after renting three years of Dr. Brown he purchased eighty acres where he now resides; since that he has bought adjoining land, that he has now in one body six hundred and fifty-six acres, which is valued at $50 per acre. For his first wife he married Miss Charlotte Vondi, who was born in Germany. They had four children, three of whom are living: Louisa, Hammon H. and Sarah Jane. Mrs. Boston died June 27, 1861, and for his second wife Mr. B. married Miss Minnie Salie, October 5, 1871. She was born in Frankfort-on-the-Rhine, Germany, in 1823. In politics, he is a Republican, and a member of the German Lutheran Church. Mr. Boston came to the country a poor man, but by hard work and economy has accumulated a fine property, and is one of the large and well-to-do farmers of the township.