DANIEL BOUGHNER, 
RETIRED MERCHANT, 
DIES AT AN OLD AGE

The Clarksburg Telegram., January 13, 1910

An Invalid Nine Years, He Expires from Attack of Pneumonia.

When Daniel Boughner died at his home 216 North Chestnut St, at 1:50 o’clock Wednesday morning, there passed from the earth one of Clarksburg’s oldest and most esteemed and successful citizens.

Mr. Boughner had been an invalid nine years but the immediate cause of his death was pneumonia, which seized him Saturday last. Born December 23, 1816, Mr. Boughner was in the 94th year of his age.

Greensboro, Pa., was the native place of Mr. Boughner. He was a son of Daniel and Mary Vance Boughner. At 12 years of age he entered a store at Morgantown as a clerk and remained there several years. About the time he became of age he engaged in merchandising and the manufacture of glass in his native town. 

In 1850 Mr. Boughner and family came to West Virginia, locating at Harrisville, Ritchie county, where he engaged in the mercantile business successfully. In August, 1865 he moved to Clarksburg and remained a resident here to the time of his death. He first conducted a mercantile business in the room now occupied by E. R. Davis & Co., hardware merchants, but in 1873 he erected a large store building on what is now Telegram Square and together with his sons he conducted a large dry goods and grocery business there, having one of the largest and best stores of the kind in the central part of the state many years.

In December, 1903, he and his sons sold the building and lot to S. S. Denham and V. L. Highland and the following April they retired from business. In all that long period of merchandising in Clarksburg the firm of Boughner and Sons was known far and wide for its business

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DANIEL BOUGHNER PASSES AWAY

The Fairmont West Virginian., January 13, 1910

AGED RESIDENT OF CLARKSBURG ANSWERS THE LAST GREAT SUMMONS

When Daniel Boughner died at his home, 216 North Chestnut street, Clarksburg, at 1:50 o’clock Wednesday morning, there passed from the earth one of that city’s oldest and most esteemed and successful citizens.

Mr. Boughner had been an invalid nine years, but the immediate cause of his death was pneumonia, which seized him Saturday last. Born December 23, 1816, Mr. Boughner was in the 94th year of his age.

Greensboro, Pa., was the place of his birth. He was a son of Daniel and Mary Vance Boughner. At 12 years of age he entered a store at Morgantown as a clerk and remained there several years. About the time he became of age he engaged in merchandising and the manufacture of glass in his native town.

Mr. Boughner and Miss Ellen Patterson, of Greensborg, were married December 30, 1841, and three sons and three daughters were born to them.

Three sons and two daughters survive him. The sons are Oliver P. and Daniel W., of this city, and Homer D., of Denver, Colo. The surving daughters are Alice, wife of the Rev. Stephen Drummond, of Washington, Pa., and Miss Laura Boughner, at home. Myra, a daughter and the youngest of the family, died in 1861, at four years of age. Mrs. Boughner died December 22, 1889.