1833–1909

Introduction

Born: Jan­ua­ry 20, 1833, Port By­ron, New York.

Died: Oc­to­ber 17, 1909, Au­burn, New York.

Buried: For­est Hills Ce­me­te­ry and Cre­ma­to­ry, Ja­mai­ca Plain, New York.

Biography

Charles was the son of Sam­uel An­drew Bots­ford and Lou­isa Mc­Lean, and hus­band of Lu­cy A. Strick­land.

He ran the C. B. Bots­ford com­pa­ny, a pa­per and twine ma­nu­fac­tur­er in Bos­ton, Mas­sa­chu­setts.

He is re­mem­bered as an au­thor of both prose and po­et­ry.

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