This article appeared in Knoxville Daily Journal, Sunday, January 8, 1888: Dr. D. T. Boynton, died at his residence on West Cumberland Street, about 2 o'clock yesterday morning. He had been in ill health for a long time and his death does not come unexpected to his friends. He was in the meridian of life, being in the 51st year of his age. He was a native of Ohio where a large number of his relatives still live. At the beginning of the lat war he entered the Union Army, and became a surgeon in the 104th Ohio Infantry, which regiment was stationed at Knoxville for some time. While here he became so favorably impressed with the section that he determined to make Knoxville his home. Soon after the close of the war he was married to Mrs. Sue Brownlow Sawyers, who survives him and who with three daughters and a son, mourn his death. While the lamented W G Brownlow was governor of Tennessee, Dr. Boynton was his private secretary, acting in a dual capacity, that of physician as well as private secretary...In the year 1869, Dr. Boynton was appointed by Gen Grant to be pension agent at Knoxville. He held that office through two terms of Grant's administration and through that of Hayes and Garfield, until the year 1883...As a physician, Dr. Boynton stood in the very front rank of his profession. He was a close, progressive student and a thoughtful skillful, conscientious practitoner...His bereaved family has the sympathies of the community.(Information provided by P.Via)
This article appeared in Knoxville Daily Journal, Sunday, January 8, 1888: Dr. D. T. Boynton, died at his residence on West Cumberland Street, about 2 o'clock yesterday morning. He had been in ill health for a long time and his death does not come unexpected to his friends. He was in the meridian of life, being in the 51st year of his age. He was a native of Ohio where a large number of his relatives still live. At the beginning of the lat war he entered the Union Army, and became a surgeon in the 104th Ohio Infantry, which regiment was stationed at Knoxville for some time. While here he became so favorably impressed with the section that he determined to make Knoxville his home. Soon after the close of the war he was married to Mrs. Sue Brownlow Sawyers, who survives him and who with three daughters and a son, mourn his death. While the lamented W G Brownlow was governor of Tennessee, Dr. Boynton was his private secretary, acting in a dual capacity, that of physician as well as private secretary...In the year 1869, Dr. Boynton was appointed by Gen Grant to be pension agent at Knoxville. He held that office through two terms of Grant's administration and through that of Hayes and Garfield, until the year 1883...As a physician, Dr. Boynton stood in the very front rank of his profession. He was a close, progressive student and a thoughtful skillful, conscientious practitoner...His bereaved family has the sympathies of the community.(Information provided by P.Via)
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