Bolton, H. C. bio

Portrait and Biographical Album of Fulton County, Illinois: containing full page portraits and biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens of the county: together with portraits and biographies of all the presidents of the United States, and governors of the state; Biographical Pub. Co., Chicago, IL; 1890; page 600–601; Transcribed by Margaret Rose Whitehurst
H. C. Bolton, of the firm of Hornstein, Bolton & Co., of Canton, and a general merchant at Cuba, was born at Newcastle-on Tyne, England, January 11, 1837, and is a son of John and Margaret (Brown) Bolton. They came to the United States in 1842, settling in Pennsylvania; the father was a Methodist Episcopal minister. At a later date he located in Wooster, Ohio, where he had charge of a Baptist Church for two years. Coming to this place in the fall of 1862, he took charge of the Pleasant Grove Church for several years. He finally started in business in Cuba, and was, for the last fifteen years of his life, a merchant. He died in March, 1887, having attained his eighty-second year. His wife died n 1886, at the age of fifty seven years.
The subject of our sketch passed his childhood in Pennsylvania and West Virginia. He was in the boot and shoe business in the latter named State, previous to his coming to Canton in 1862. Immediately upon his arrival he commenced the same business here, and in 1889 started the general merchandise business in Cuba, and was at one time in the grocery business at Canton. In 1885 the partnership of Hornstein, Bolton & Co., was formed. Mr. Bolton is a Knight Templar, and also a member of the United Workmen at Canton. He is an active energetic and popular business man.
In the fall of 1864, Mr. Bolton married Miss Grace Geyer, a native of Cuba, and daughter of Joseph and Bathsheba (Breed) Geyer, among the oldest settlers in this county. Mrs. Botlon died in February, 187, leaving four children, namely: John H., a boot and shoe merchant, who started in business at that point in 1888. He carries a full line of boots and shoes; in fact, the largest assortment in the city. He is an agreeable, courteous gentleman, who holds a high place in the estimation of his acquaintances and friends. The other children are, William J., Dudley G., a book-keeper in Chicago, and Mary Grace. Our subject is possessed of unusual business tact, and honorable in all his transactions, and always ready to be of aid to his fellow citizens, who appreciate his position in the community where he resides.