found:His Dr. J.F. Boynton's lectures, 1850:p. 2 (Dr. Boynton, practical geologist)
found:His The Boynton family, 1897:t.p. (John Farnham Boynton) p. 19, etc. (studied medicine; lecturer on geology, natural history, magnetism, and electricity, throughout U.S.; in Calif. June 1849-1851; settled in Syracuse, N.Y. 1851; inventor, genealogist, chemist, scientist; b. 9/20/1811; d. 10/20/1890)
found:Nauvoo journal, 1996:vol. 8, no. 1, page 3 (John Farnham Boynton; native of Massachusetts; schooled at Columbia University; attended medical school; by age 21 ordained an elder in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and serving first missionary journed in the eastern states and Canada; member of the Quorum of Twelve Apostles in Kirtland, Ohio) page 4 (excommunicated from the church 12 April 1838) page 5 (scientific lecturer; late 1840's settled his family in Syracuse, New York and he went west in search of gold in California; returned to Syracuse and became known as a gentleman farmer, scientist, and inventor; died at his home 20 October 1890)
found:Wikipedia, website viewed 6 December 2013(John F. Boynton; John Farnham Boynton; born in Bradford, Massachusetts, September 20, 1811; American geologist and inventor; attended Columbia University and began medical school in St. Louis, Missouri; one of the original members of the Latter Day Saint movement's Quorum of the Twelve Apostles; baptized into The Church of Christ Sepetmber 1832 in Kirtland, Ohio; author)
John F. Boynton
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