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H. Boring March 10, 1825 - unknown
Hopkins County KyArchives Biography

Author: Genealogy and Biography, Volume 1, 2nd edition, 1886

PROF. H. BORING, Hopkins County, was born March 10, 1825, in Brooke County, W. Va. He is a son of Eli and Cecilia (Loudenslager) Boring, both natives of what is now Carroll County, Md. The father died in 1851, aged fifty-eight, the mother died in 1878, aged seventy-eight. Prof. Boring was reared in his native county, and in 1846 accidentally lost both arms while assisting with a wheat thresher; after recovering from these wounds he attended Bethany College, West Virginia, presided over by Alexander Campbell, from which he graduated in 1853, sharing first honors with W. B. Smith of Madison County, Ky. In the fall of 1853 he came to Hopkins County and established a female boarding school in Madisonville; he sold out this school in 1860, and during the war taught in Christian and Trigg Counties. In 1867 he entered Eminence College as professor of Mathematics, which position he held until 1873, after which he returned to Madisonville, where he taught a select school ten years; he is now occupying the chair of Mathematics in Eminence College, Kentucky, the past thirty-one years the professor has been engaged in teaching, and is the oldest teacher in Hopkins County, and perhaps one of the oldest in the State, as well as one of the most proficient. He was married in 1854 to Mattie Collins, daughter of Elder O. Collins of Madisonville. He uses artificial arms of his own invention, by means of which he assists himself, and manipulates in the school rooms successfully. 



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