"United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MH9D-BZJ : 14 August 2017), Gilbert W Boyer, North Vernon, Jennings, Indiana, United States; citing enumeration district ED 137, sheet 349C, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 0288; FHL microfilm 1,254,288.
Capt. Co. D, 83rd Reg. Ohio Volunteers during the Civil War. Born six months after his father's death. Was apprenticed and bound to the Porter family as a youth. Upon reaching adulthood, he became a stone mason and contractor in the Cincinnati area. He built the C&O Railway in Brenton, Kentucky, across the Ohio River from Coney Island.
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