Background
He was also the son of Rear Admiral Charles Boarman and uncle of fellow pioneer doctor Charles B. Harris. Charles Boarman was born in Martinsburg, Virginia on October 28, 1828.
He was also the son of Rear Admiral Charles Boarman and uncle of fellow pioneer doctor Charles B. Harris. Charles Boarman was born in Martinsburg, Virginia on October 28, 1828.
Georgetown University.
He was one of ten children born to Mary Ann "Nancy" Abell and Rear Admiral Charles Boarman (1795–1879), then a lieutenant in the United States Navy. The young Boarman earned a medical degree at Georgetown University and, shortly after graduating from Saint Mary"s School, he headed for California at age 23. Charles Boarman and Mary Ann Hills had seven children together, one of whom died.
In early-1859, Boarman and his family moved to Lancha Plana, a booming mining town on the Mokelumne River, and were among the first to permanently settle in Amador County, California.
In the summer of that year, he and another doctor treated at least one Native American, using squaws as nurses, after fighting broke out between settlers and Jackson Valley Indians. Boarman spent seventeen years as the county physician until his death on November 22, 1880, while fighting a smallpox epidemic.
He was among the original pioneers to settle in present-day Amador County, California, serving as its first county physician from 1863 until 1880, and was one of the founding members of the Society of California Pioneers. He was a charter member of the Amador Society of California Pioneers and presided over the Amador County chapter"s first session in Jackson, California on September 9, 1877.