BIO: Hon. Harry BOULTON, Clearfield County, PA
 
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From Twentieth Century History of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania,
and Representative Citizens, by Roland D. Swoope, Jr.,
Chicago: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, 1911, page 443.
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  HON. HARRY BOULTON, who has been engaged in the practice of law at Houtzdale, 
Pa., since 1897 and is a recognized leader of the Clearfield County bar, is 
also quite prominent in Republican politics in this section.  He was born in 
England, in 1872, and came to America in 1886, locating first in Arizona, where 
he joined his father.  One year later he came to Houtzdale, Pa., and has 
resided here ever since.
  Mr. Boulton obtained a public school education, later studied law and was 
admitted to the bar in 1897 and in 1904 associated with Hon. Cyrus Gordon, in 
the practice of law.  The death of Judge Gordon in 1911 dissolved this 
partnership.  He has taken a large amount of interest in public questions and 
is considered a leader of his party in Clearfield County.  He has never sought 
political honors unduly for himself, however, but is willing to work hard for 
his friends.  From 1894 until 1898 he was secretary of the Republican County 
Committee, and was county chairman from 1899 until 1903.  In the latter year 
his party elected him a member of the state legislature and he served until 
1905 and in the special session of 1906.  In 1908 he was sent as a delegate to 
the National Republican Convention at Chicago.  Quite recently he has been 
again honored by an appointment as a member of the arbitration board for 
Central Pennsylvania, representing the coal operators, this being a direct 
recognition of his fair minded and conservative temperament.
  Mr. Boulton married Miss Emily V. Smith, at Houtzdale, who was born in New 
Jersey, and they have had two children:  Harold J. and Eleanor, the latter of 
whom died in 1910.  Mr. Boulton is a Mason, belonging to Osceola Lodge No. 515; 
to the Commandery at Phillipsburg, and to Jaffa Temple, Mystic Shrine, at 
Altoona.  He is somewhat interested as a coal operator and is a member of the 
directing board of the First National Bank of Houtzdale.