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Mr. Painter's marriage, which was celebrated in Muscatine, Iowa, May 4, 1876, united him with Miss Mary E. Joy, who was born in Evans, N. Y. The history of the Joy family can be traced back to the time of King Henry VIII. of England, where the records mention one George Joy, who in 1517 was admitted as a fellow to Peterhouse College at Cambridge. Old mannscripts also mention that he was a "learned, pious and laborious reformer in the reign of Henry VIII." In the Herald's College, London, may be seen the grant of a coat of arms to the descendants of Thomas Joy. The crest is a vine stump, with a dove standing between two branches, while the motto is "Vive la Joie." The earliest record of Thomas Joy in America bears date of 1634, and it is thought that he emi- grated from Hingham, Norfolk county, Eng- land, with a colony of about eight hundred per- sons who crossed the Atlantic in 1630, under the leadership of Governor Winthrop. The latter thus speaks of Mr. Joy: "There was a young fellow, Thomas Joy, whom they had employed to get hands for the petition. He began to be very busy, but was laid hold on and kept in irons four or five days, and then he humbled himself, confessed what he knew, and blamed himself for meddling in matters not his, and
blessed God for the irons upon his legs, hoping they would do him good while he lived. So he was let out upon bail." In 1646, with his wife and four children, Thomas Joy moved from Bos- ton to Hingham, Mass., where he erected a mill which he conducted the remainder of his life, his death occurring October 21, 1678. He married Joan Gallop, the daughter of John Gallop, a celebrated Indian fighter and trader, who, with a son, served in the Pequod war and received large grants of land from the government. His wife was Hannah Lake, a niece of Governor Winthrop. John Gallop was killed in the fight with the Indians at Narragansett, December 19, 1675. Of the eight children born to Thomas Joy and his wife the fourth son was Joseph Joy, born January 2, 1645, and who married Mary Prince, August 29, 1667. Upon May 26, 1690, their son, Joseph, Jr., married Elizabeth, daugh- ter of Capt. James Andrews. Their son David and his wife, Ruth, who were married in 1718, had a son, David, Jr., who married Elizabeth Allen. The next in line of descent was David the third, who in 1776 married Hannah Part- ridge, of Guilford, Vt. One of their children was Ira Joy, the grandfather of Mrs. Mary E. Painter, who in 1815 married Clarissa Ludlow. In 1800 he went with his father to Onondaga county, N. Y., and later went to Erie county, that state, where he accumulated considerable property, in fact Buffalo stands on a portion of his old homestead. As a contractor he assisted in the construction of the Erie Canal. In 1854 he removed from Buffalo to Michigan, and his death occurred in Galesburg, that state. Will- iam H. Joy, his son and the father of Mrs. Painter, was born in Tompkins county, N. Y., October 24. 1819, and on October 24, 1843, he married Marion W. Ingersoll, at Evans, N. Y., their marriage resulting in the birth of thirteen children, of whom nine are still living. From Buffalo, which was then a small town, William H. Joy removed to Muscatine, Iowa, there be- coming agent for the United States Express Company, a position which he held until he was fifty-six years of age. He died when in his fifty-eighth year, his wife having died in 1870, about five years previous to his demise. Their daughter, Mrs. Painter, was born at Evans, N. Y., August 12, 1854, growing to womanhood in
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Muscatine. Iowa, which was her home until the removal of the family to California. Her eldest child, Joy Painter, was born in Iowa March I, 1879, and died in infancy. The living children are Charles Wilfred, born in Muscatine, Iowa; Robert Alden and Marion, who were born in Pasadena. Mr. and Mrs. Painter took an im- portant part in the organization of the First Congregational Church of Pasadena, and were no less influential in founding the North Con- gregational Church, with which congregation they now worship. Personally Mr. Painter is a man of earnest, positive nature. of absolute fearlessness in matters of right and wrong, and of noble characteristics, all of which attributes bind him to his many friends.
GEN. EDWARD BOUTON, one of the representative citizens of Los Angeles, and a pioneer in its development and upbuilding, is the descendant of an ancestry which has given to the world many eminent men as warriors, statesmen and financiers, and-not the least among them-patriots who in the time of need have freely sacrificed everything of a personal nature to give to the cause of their country. They are one of the oldest families of America and previous to their location on American soil trace their genealogy back to the fifth cen- tury, where they were identified with the Visigoth clan, and the head of the Salian tribe, under King Hilderia, A. D. 481, who at his death left his son, Clovis, king of the tribe. This king as is well known in history eventu- ally embraced the Christian faith, which ex- ample was followed by many of his people, among whom were the ancestors of the Bou- ton family. The ancient Bouton shield or coat-of-arms had the following motto on a groundwork on perpendicular lines, "De Gules a la Fasce d'Or," which is old French, and its translation means a force as of a leop- ard when its attacks with its red mouth open. This coat of arms is still borne by the Count Chamilly, at present residing in Rome.
Members of the Bouton family distinguished themselves in French history for many gen- erations, the military and court records abounding with their name and the valor of
their deeds for two centuries. Nicholas Bou- ton, born about 1580, bore the title of Count Chamilly, he being the direct ancestor of Gen. Edward Bouton; he was a Huguenot, and with his three sons, Herard and John (twins), and Noel Bouton, was a refugee during the violent persecution of the Protestants by the Roman Catholics during the predominance of the Guises in France. Later, the intolerance of the Catholics being over, Noel Bouton further advanced the honors of the family and was made Marquis de Chamilly, and in 1703 became the marshal of all France, a life-size portrait of himself being placed in the gallery of French nobles at Versailles, France, where it is still to be seen. The Irish branch of the family was founded by a descendant of a brother of the marquis, who, in the reign of
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Louis XIV of France, rose to the rank of Premier Valette de Chambre, and died upon the scaffold in the prison of the Luxembourg in 1794, for his opposition to priest and king. This was Herard Bowton, who with his twin brother, John, received his education in the family of a priest in Ireland. Upon the revo- cation of the Edict of Nantes Herard Bowton returned to Ireland, still following the for- tunes of Marshal Tehomborge, under whom he served in the Protestant army under Wil- liam III, risking life and fortune in behalf of civil and religious liberty. He particularly distinguished himself as a fearless and valiant soldier at the battle of the Boyne. July I, 1690, and was rewarded for his services with a share of the confiscated lands situated in the county of Ballyrack. The present Lord Mon- tague Bowton is a lineal descendant of Her- ard Bowton, who presumably returned to France after the battle of the Boyne.
There is a tradition in the Bouton family
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regarding the origin of the name, which re- iates that in the twelfth century an ancestor serving as chorister in the chapel of the duke of Burgundy founded his name and fortune and that of his family by striking down with his official baton an assassin who made an at- tempt on the life of his master. This act raised him in the ducal chapel to the position of page of honor to the duke of Burgundy, and his gallant achievement was properly commemorated by heraldic inseription on a shield which the family have ever since borne, viz .: De Gules a la Fasce d'Or, with the surname of Baton (since corrupted into Bou- ton) bestowed upon him by the duke. The change of Baton to Bouton was, it was said, in allusion to the brightness of the buttons
with which as a page his coat was adorned. Despite this tradition, however, there were officers by the name of Bouton in William the Conqueror's army in 1060, a century ear- lier than the incident related of the chorister in the duke of Burgundy's chapel, this being the first advent of the Boutons into England.
Honors came to the family in their new environment and in the civil, political and re- ligious life of England they early played a prominent part ; under the names of Boughton, Rouse and Broughton, two members were at the same time peers of England and six others represented seats in the English Par- liament. Rouse Boughton's ancestors were of very high antiquity in the counties of Surrey, Worcester, Warwick, Gloucester and Here- ford; in a history of Worcester it is men- tioned that its patriarchs of that shire accom-
panied the Conqueror to England, and the statement is confirmed by the Battle Abbey Roll. The name of Boughton became merged into Rouse by Thomas Philip Rouse Bough- ton, who assumed the name of Rouse and took up his residence at Rouse Leach. This gen- tleman, as Thomas Rouse, Esq., served as high sheriff of Worcester in 1733. Charles Wil- liam Boughton, Esq. (second son of Sehuck- burgh Boughton, Esq., of Poston Court, County Hereford, and grandson of Sir Wil- liam Boughton, fourth baronet of Lawford, County Warwick), assumed the surname of Rouse and represented the boroughs of Ever- sham and Bramber as Charles William Boughton Rouse, Esq. Boughton Rouse was chief secretary of the board of control and was created a baronet June 28, 1791, but soon afterward he inherited the baronetage of his own family, the Boughtons. Sir Edward Boughton, of Barchester, County Warwick, was created a baronet August 4, 1641. The Boughtons held baronetcies in England for eleven generations. To go back to an early descendant of the first English Bouton, we find William Bouton, who, according to tra- dition and history, was a Burgundian soldier of fortune who served in the army of Edward III of England when he invaded France in 1356. He attained the title of Sir William Boughton, having won the personal favor of King Edward at the battle of Portiers, ever afterward followed his fortunes, and at the close of the campaigns returned with him to England. His estates were situated on the banks of the river Avon, and the manor house was known as Lawford hall, and was built by Edward, son of Sir William, during the reign of Queen Elizabeth. Edward Boughton was high sheriff of the county and member of the shire, and after death his body was consigned to the family vault under the church at New- bold.
The ancestor who located the name on American soil was John Bouton, a lineal de- scendant of Count Chamilly. In July, 1636, at the age of twenty years, he embarked at Gravesend, England, in the barque Assurance, and landed at Boston, Mass., in December of the same year. Early in the settlement of
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Hartford, Conn., he moved to that place, and in 1671 and for several years subsequent, he was a representative in the general court of the colony of Connecticut. Several succeed- ing generations were born in Connecticut, a son of the English emigrant, John Bouton, Jr., being a native of Norwalk, born September 30, 1659. He married and reared a family, among his children being a son, Nathaniel, who was also born in Norwalk, in 1691, while his grandson, Daniel, son of Nathaniel, was born at New Canaan, township of Stratford, Conn., October 24, 1740. Daniel Bouton be- came captain of a company of Connecticut volunteers during the Revolutionary war and distinguished himself in the long and ardu- ous struggle, while his son, Russell Bouton, served his country well in the war with Eng- land in 1812. Russell Bouton was also a na- tive of Connecticut, born at Danbury, Octo- ber 31, 1790; at Reading, Conn., May 16, 1814, he married Mary Hinsdale, a daughter of Moses Hinsdale, who rendered valuable serv- ice in the Revolutionary war by the manu- facture of one hundred cannon for the co- lonial troops, from metal, mined, smelted and cast by himself, and for which he received nothing, simply because of the inability of the infant government to pay. Russell Bouton and his wife remained residents of Connecticut until 1821, and then moved to the township of Howard (now Avoca), Steuben county, N. Y., where Edward Bouton, the subject of this sketch, was born April 12, 1834.
The years of youth and young manhood of Edward Bouton were passed upon the pa- ternal farm, where he interspersed an attend- ance of a country school at Goff's Mills with the duties incident to his home life, as his elder brothers had left home to start in life for themselves and his father was an invalid. He was thus early trained in self reliance and habits of industry, working in his father's fields from the age of thirteen years to the age of seventeen. He subsequently studied in Rodgersville Academy, where, as an evidence of his industry as a scholar, it may be cited that during a full term there were but two recitations that were not marked perfect, and
also at Haverling Union School, at Bath, N. Y.
Commercial activity, however, attracted the young man, and his twentieth birthday found him head clerk in the extensive dry goods store of Joseph Carter at Bath; this interest was later consolidated with the store owned by Martin Brownwell, and this immense stock of goods was sent to LeRoy, N. Y., there to be placed in a store and closed out. Mr. Bou- ton was given entire charge of this enterprise and so well did he execute the task that it was completed the first of March, 1855, when he returned to Bath. There, with his former employer, he entered into partnership and es- tablished an extensive grocery, provision and produce business, buying and shipping wool, grain and produce of all kinds. Two years later he purchased his partner's interest in the business and built the largest store in Steuben county, locating purchasing agents at all the stations on the main line of the Erie Railway from Corning to Dunkirk, and on the Buffalo branch from Corning to Buffalo. For two years the superintendent of the Erie Railway reported that over half of the wool, grain and produce passing Corning eastbound on the road belonged to Ed. Bouton, as he was fa- miliarly called. When the great panic of 1857 struck New York, closing every bank in the state except the Chemical Bank and John Ma- gee's Steuben County Bank at Bath in twenty- four hours, Mr. Bouton had about $1,250,000 invested in wool stored in Pine street, the de- cline in the price of which in one day amount- ed to fully $100,000. The Erie Railway re- quired consignees to pay freight and remove goods in twenty-four hours, but at this time Mr. Bouton's shipments filled and blocked the entire Duane street pier in two days, and there was not a commission merchant in New York City who could receive the goods and pay the freight. Mr. Moran, the president of the Erie Railway, authorized Mr. Bouton to move his goods and pay the freight at his con- venience. He rented and quickly filled a large storehouse on Dey street. All business was paralyzed and nearly all shippers but Mr. Bouton ceased trying to do business. Soon the hotels, boarding houses and private fami-
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lies were seeking supplies of butter, eggs, cheese and kindred articles, of which Mr. Bou- ton held the principal available supply in the city. John Magee, who left an estate valued at $80,000,000, had such implicit confidence in Mr. Bouton's great energy and strict integ- rity, and deemed his business so beneficial to the community that he promptly rendered financial aid, requiring no security except that all advances should be paid in a reasonable time. In 1859 Mr. Bouton sold out his busi- ness in Bath, and going to Chicago, engaged in the grain commission business, owning ves- sel property on the lakes, and doing a grain and lumber shipping business.
Mr. Bouton had in his family records num- berless examples for his action in 1861, when he closed up and sacrificed his newly estab- lished business to engage in the War of the Rebellion, for it is said that of the many Bou- tons throughout New England during the Revolutionary war there was not an able- bodied man who was not serving his country. and the records of the War department show that every northern state and over half of the southern states were represented by Boutons in the Union army during the War of the Re- bellion, three of them attaining the rank of brigadier-general. It is undoubtedly a his- torical fact that for some fourteen centuries members of this family have proven them- selves valiant soldiers on many of the impor- tant battlefields of the civilized world, and al- ways on the side of loyalty, religious liberty and better government. Mr. Bouton at once raised a battery for service in the Civil war, familiarly known as Bouton's battery, its offi- cial designation being Battery I, First Regi- ment, Illinois Light Artillery. At the time he organized this famous battery it was costing the state of Illinois $154 per capita to recruit, transport and maintain troops previ- ous to being mustered into the United States service. Bouton's battery cost the state only $13.20 per capita, the balance of the expense being paid out of the private purse of General Bouton. This battery rendered important service throughout the entire struggle, from the battle of Shiloh to those of Nashville and Franklin, three years later, in the first named
conflict performing deeds of valor which meant no little in the winning of the Union forces. A detailed account of the participa- tion of Bouton's battery is herewith given, in- asmuch as its action during the first day of the conflict was one of the most potent factors in giving the victory on the following day: At about three in the afternoon of the first day the Union forces were compelled to retire from a timbered ridge about a third of a mile out from Pittsburg Landing. Some eight hun- dred yards in front of this ridge was the green point where the Hamburgh and Purdy Roads formed a junction. Here was concentrated a large Confederate force. When the Union forces fell back from this ridge, Bouton's Bat- tery, having a commanding position, held its ground and a detachment of the Fifty-third Ohio Infantry remained in supporting distance in the rear. If the Confederates gained the ridge their guns could sweep the Landing and the intervening space, and necessarily the fate of the Union army depended upon the pos- session of this ground, until night, or until Buell came. A Rebel battery of six six- pounder guns took position well in front and opened fire at about six hundred yards distant on Bouton's left front, which was promptly answered. It seemed that all other firing in the vicinity for the time was suspended, and the two opposing batteries occupied all atten- tion. For a half hour the combat raged furi- ously, when a Mississippi battery of four twelve-pounder howitzers took position and opened fire on Bouton's right front at short range, thus bringing him under a heavy cross fire. The latter then wheeled his right section of two guns under First Lieutenant Harry Rogers, and brought it to bear on the Missis- sippi battery. The failure of both batteries to drive him from the ridge called for Jackson's Brigade of Mississippi Infantry, which charged his battery in front, advancing between the two batteries on the right and left. This charge was met with guns double shotted with canister, which sent them back in broken dis- order. The fight between the batteries went on until the approach of night, just as Bouton fired his last round of ammunition. Then he fell back to the main line in front of the Land-
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ing, taking off two guns (one disabled) by hand, with the aid of men from the Fifty-third Ohio, the horses on these guns having been killed. Bouton's Battery had been reported captured some two hours before, and when he turned up all right and it was ascertained that he had held the ridge against such odds, such a cheer of triumph was given as made the welkin ring. It meant victory for the morrow. The next day, with five guns re-supplied with ammunition, Bouton's Battery made a dash across an old cotton field, under a terrific fire of both infantry and artillery and occupied and held a position from which two batteries had been driven, and with canister at short range materially aided in driving Breckenridge from nearly the same ground occupied by Sher- man's division at the commencement of the bat- tle. In this famous artillery duel Bouton's Battery fired five hundred and forty rounds of ammunition, being more than reported by any other Union battery during the entire battle. It has been stated by General Halleck that in his opinion one thousand men saved the day at Shiloh, most conspicuous in the number being Bouton's Battery of Chicago.
Captain Bouton, commanding his battery in person, first attracted the attention of his su- perior officers and brought to him another honor of distinction. In consultation with General Thomas on the one hand and his six division commanders on the other, Gen. Stephen A. Hurlburt, commanding Depart- ment of West Tennessee and Northern Mississippi, made choice of Captain Bouton, at that time chief of artillery of the Fifth Di- vision of the Sixteenth Army Corps, Sher- man's old Shiloh Division, to command one of six colored regiments which had been or- ganized in May, 1863. It was a happy choice that placed Captain Bouton in this position, for he brought to bear the same thoroughness, capacity for discipline and general ability which had distinguished him thus far in his military career. Less than two years later General Marcy, inspector-general of the United States army, after a thorough personal inspec- tion, pronounced three of the colored regi- ments in General Bouton's command, "in drill, discipline and military bearing equal to any
in the service, regular or volunteer." Another instance of his courage on the field was an occurrence of July 13, 1864, a month after the disaster to the Union troops at Guntown, Miss., when in command of about four thou- sand, five hundred men, white and colored, he made a march of twenty-two miles in one day, from Pontotoc to Tupelo, Miss., guarding a heavy train of three hundred wagons and fighting at the same time four distinct battles, each successful and against superior odds. Generals A. J. Smith and Joseph Mower, com- manding corps and division, respectively, de- clared this achievement unsurpassed within their knowledge.
During his army career General Bouton was several times mentioned in terms of commen- dation, especially for strict integrity, by both President Lincoln and Secretary of War Stan- ton, on one occasion Secretary Stanton saying that he was one of the few army officers who had been able to handle Confederate cotton without being contaminated. In recommend- ing General Bouton's promotion to brigadier- general General Grant said: "I consider Gen- eral Bouton one of the best officers in the army, and there is not one whose promotion I can more cheerfully recommend." Generals Halleck and Sherman pronounced him the best artillery officer in the army, General Halleck saying that he had never seen a better bat- tery than Bouton's either in Europe or Amer- ica, and that less than a thousand men had saved the day at Shiloh, most conspicuous among the number being Bouton's battery of Chicago. General Sherman said on one occa- sion : "Bouton was as cool under fire and as good an artillery officer as I ever knew, and there is no living man whom I would rather have handle my artillery in a hard fight." Gen- eral Washburn said that General Bouton's de- fense of the rear of the vanquished Union forces, under General Sturgis, on their retreat from Guntown, Miss., to Germantown, Tenn., for two days and nights, a distance of eighty- one miles, with but a handful of men against the incessant and impetuous attacks of Gen- eral Forrest's victorious army, constituted one of the most heroic deeds recorded in history. Generals A. J. Smith and Joseph Mower both
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pronounced him the best brigade commander they had ever seen. When General Smith's veterans of the Sixteenth Corps were, for the third time, repulsed before the Spanish Fort at Mobile, he said to Colonel Kendrick: "I wish to God Bouton were here, he would go in there like a whirlwind."
To show how the general was regarded by the Confederates, the following incident may be narrated: Soon after his promotion to be a brigadier-general, and when thirty years of age, he had some pictures taken at Oak gal- lery in Memphis, Tenn. One of these was ob- tained by the Confederate General N. B. For- rest from one of Bouton's officers, who was taken a prisoner of war. This picture General Forrest sent to Mobile, where hundreds of copies were made and distributed among the Confederate soldiers in the southwest. When Mobile was captured, both Gen. A. J. Smith, commanding the Sixteenth Corps, and Colonel Kendrick, formerly of General Bouton's com- mand, reported finding many of the pictures with the order endorsed upon them to kill or capture this officer at any cost or hazard.
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