History of  Franklin and Grand Isle Counties, Vermont; 
Edited by Lewis Cass Aldrich; Syracuse, N.Y.; 
D.Mason & Co Publishers; 1891.

County:  Franklin
Township:  Richford

Boright, Sheldon,  the fourth of eight children of Henry and Triphosa Jane 
(Sheldon) Boright, was born in Frelighsburgh, P.Q., April 29, 1832.  His 
father was a farmer, and on the farm Sheldon remained until he reached the 
age of eighteen, when he went to Providence, R.I., with a brother, where he 
worked in a store.  About two years later he returned to Canada and engaged 
in the mercantile business with Nelson Boright and two other brothers, in 
which business he continued until 1869, when he sold out his interest and 
came to reside in Richford.  Here he established a general store.  He has also 
been engaged in various other business enterprises.  In the spring of 1890 he 
built and started a creamery in Richmond, but the immediate charge of this 
business is entrusted to his son, Clinton M. Boright.  In all his various 
enterprises, especially during later years, Mr. Boright has had a valuable 
assistant in the person of his wife, Rachel R. (Rutherford) Boright, the 
daughter of Major Rutherford, of Monkton, Vt., whom he married March 19, 
1862.  Five children have been born to them, of whom four are living, viz:  
Ethel L., Clinton M., Eva E., and Sheldon R.  Mrs. Rachel R. Boright has 
been an earnest worker in the temperance cause, particularly in the 
organization of a juvenile temperance society, which now numbers some 
eighty members.  She is also a prominent member of the Methodist 
Episcopal church and Sunday-school.

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