PORTAGE COUNTY OHIO
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File contributed to the Ohio Biographies Project by:
Betty Ralph
bralph@HiWAAY.net
December 1, 1999
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Copyright © 1999 by  Betty Ralph. This copy contributed for use in
the OH Biographies Project.  bralph@hiwaay.net


from "History of Portage County, Ohio" published by Warner, Beers & Co., 
Chicago, 1885

THE BOSZOR FAMILY were among the early settlers of Portage County and were
of German origin.  …….Boszor came from his native country to America about
1772, and settled at Baltimore, Md., where he married Barbara Stoyer.  He
died at Baltimore in 1798, and the widow subsequently came to this county
and died in Brimfield Township.  Their son, Henry, Boszor, settled at
Ravenna in 1804; he was a shoe-maker by trade, but after coming to this
county his principal occupation was farming.  He at once bought fifty acres
of land a short distance east of Ravenna, and in 1805 was married to Polly
Boosinger, a daughter of Conrad Boosinger, a pioneer of this county.  The
following year he sold this farm and bought a farm by the Stark County line,
but a year or so afterward he sold out and bought a place in the northeast
part of Springfield Township, this county, where he lived for several years,
and in 1816 bought a farm one mile west of Brimfield Center, and for the
remainder of his life was a resident of  Brimfield Township.  The
last-mentioned farm was afterward known as the "Israel Thorndyke" farm, and
a year or so after his purchase he traded his place with Mr. Thorndyke for a
farm of 100 acres one-half mile north of Brimfield Center, which became his
homestead up to the time of his death.  Some five or six years after his
last trade he discovered that this farm had been heavily mortgaged previous
to his purchase of it, which involved him in a heavy additional expense, and
he was obliged to pay for it a second time.  This to a man with a young and
growing family was quite a hardship, but he may be said to have surmounted
all obstacles - raised a family of nine children, and at his death in 1862
left a comfortable property to his widow and children.  He was a
representative pioneer and a highly esteemed and trusted citizen.  From the
records it would appear that he served the township in various local
offices, such as Trustee, etc., etc.  He was formerly an old-line Whig, but
in the later years of his life he adhered to the Democratic party.  During
the war of 1812 he was drafted and hired a substitute; only a short time
afterward, however, he volunteered, and was on his way with others to
re-enforce, and was only a short distance from Gen. Hull’s army at the time
of its surrender, but the company of which he was a member escaped.  He died
in August, 1862.  His widow, Polly, died February 11, 1874.  They were both
members of the Lutheran Church.  They were the parents of the following
named children:  Elizabeth, born in 1805, died in 1881; John, born December
28, 1807, died in August, 1884; Jacob, born December 26, 1809; Polly, born
in 1811, died in 1835; Barbara, born in 1813, died November 20, 1875; Susan,
born in September, 1815; Henry, born August 1, 1818; David, born February 2,
1821, died May 6, 1861; Martin, born June 2, 1824; Simon Peter, born in
1830, died in 1831.