10 Facts About Elijah Boardman

Elijah Boardman was an American politician who served as a senator from Connecticut.

Elijah Boardman served as Senator from Connecticut until his death in Ohio.

Under Captain Isaac Bostwick, Elijah Boardman served in one of the first sixteen regiments raised by the Continental Congress under the command of Colonel Charles Webb.

Elijah Boardman was directed to Boston, and diverted to New London and New York City, where he took part in Battle of Long Island, however after defeat there and American evacuation to Washington, he was confined to a sick bed having exacerbated childhood medical difficulties and fever.

Now detached from the army, Elijah Boardman resumed his tutorship under John Hickling, a family tutor employed by Elijah Boardman's father.

In 1781, Elijah Boardman took work as a clerk and as a merchant.

Elijah Boardman spent time employed in New Haven, training as a shopkeeper in the store of Elijah and Archibald Austin, before setting up his own company in his home town of New Milford later that same year.

Elijah Boardman is listed by the Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856 as having been present at Senate proceedings on December 3,1821, in Washington DC in the company of Class-3 Connecticut senator James Lanman.

Elijah Boardman's body was returned home and interred in New Milford.

Elijah Boardman was survived by his first son, later politician William, and his second, Henry Mason Boardman.