organize recovery efforts after the 1884 Ohio River floods. In 1888, he was elected the 5th circuit judge and took the bench the following year. He continued to serve until his death seven years later, exhausted after a late trip home from Elizabeth, the Wirt County seat. Death and legacy Boreman died in Parkersburg in 1896, survived by his wife, two stepsons and daughter. After services at his home and at the Methodist Episcopal Church were he had long served as a lay leader, he was buried at the Odd Fellows cemetery in Parkersburg. His brother Jacob Smith Boremon became a Justice of the Utah territory Supreme Court and his nephew Herbert Stephenson Boreman (1897–1982) served as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. Boreman, West Virginia is named for the family. Boreman Hall, a dormitory on the campus of West Virginia University, is named after him. In addition, Arthur I. Boreman Elementary School is named in his honor in the Tyler County town of Middlebourne, and formerly two elementary schools in the Kanawha County town of Cross Lanes and the outlying Parkersburg area in Wood County were named in his honor. References External links Biographical Directory of the United States Congress Arthur Ingram Boreman The West Virginia & Regional History Center at West Virginia University houses the papers of Arthur I. Boreman in two collections, A&M 104 and A&M 639 1823 births 1896 deaths People from Waynesburg, Pennsylvania Republican Party governors of West Virginia People from Tyler County, West Virginia Methodists from West Virginia Republican Party United States senators from West Virginia Delegates of the 1861 Wheeling Convention Union (American Civil War) state governors 19th-century American politicians Boreman family