Background
Boynton, Henry Van Ness was born on July 22, 1835 in West Stockbridge, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Review Charles B. and Maria (Van Buskirk) Boynton.
Boynton, Henry Van Ness was born on July 22, 1835 in West Stockbridge, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Review Charles B. and Maria (Van Buskirk) Boynton.
Removed to Ohio in boyhood. Graduate Woodward College, Cincinnati, 1854. Kentucky Military Institute, 1858 (Master of Arts, 1859.
Civil Engineer, 1860).
Major and lieutenant colonel 35th Ohio volunteer infantry, 1861-1865. Commanded regiment in battles of Chickamauga and storming of Missionary Ridge. Bvtd. brigadier general for gallantry at Chickamauga and Chattanooga.
Awarded Congressional medal of honor for Missionary Ridge.
Newspaper correspondent in Washington from 1865. Chairman Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park.
Brigadier general volumes, war with Spain, June 17, 1898. President Board of Education, District of Columbia.
Member Society Army of the Cumberland.
Married Helen Augusta Mason, 1871.