CLAN BOYD INTERNATIONAL
FRANK and LAURA (HASSELL) BOYD
One of the prominent attorneys of Waynesboro
is Frank Boyd, who was born at
Vesuvius, Ohio, on the 30th of July, 1859,
a son of G. W. and Ann (Songer)
Boyd. Mr. Boyd was born in western
Pennsylvania in 1827 and his wife was born
in Virginia.
In the acquirement of his preliminary education
Frank Boyd attended the
public schools of Wayne county and at the
age of fifteen years engaged in
teaching school. He taught for one year and
then entered Mars Hill College
near Florence, Alabama, for four terms. He
taught during vacations in Wayne
and Shelby counties and in 1879 took up the
study of law in the office of
Alex W. Campbell and Judge Howell E. Jackson,
in Jackson, Tennessee. In 1880
he graduated from the legal department of
Cumberland University at Lebanon,
and the following year commenced practice
in Waynesboro. In a profession
where advancement depends upon individual
merit he has achieved substantial
success and stands high among the foremost
members of the Tennessee bar. In
1894 he was elected attorney general for the
eleventh judicial district of
Tennessee, composing Maury, Giles, Lawrence,
Lewis, Hardin and Wayne
counties. He was active in that office eight
years, serving with distinction.
He has always been a stanch democrat and was
elected to the senate in the
fifty-seventh general assembly of Tennessee
in 1910, representing Lawrence
and Wayne counties. While a member of the
assembly he served as chairman of
the committee on the refunding of the state
debt. He was democratic elector
on the Cleveland-Thurman presidential election
ticket in 1892, for the
seventh congressional district of this state.
Frank Boyd is now, however,
devoting his entire time to his profession
and business interests. He was one
of the original promoters of the first telephone
line in Wayne county and the
first turnpike since the Civil war. He was
likewise a dominant factor in the
establishment of the first bank in Waynesboro.
In 1885 he became
superintendent of schools of Wayne county
and served in that important
position two terms. He is now a member of
the board of directors of the Wayne
County College.
On the 22d of May, 1883, was celebrated the
marriage of Frank Boyd to Miss
Laura E. Hassell, a daughter of A.
T. and Eliza Hassell, prominent residents
of Waynesboro. Mrs Boyd is a woman of much
culture and refinement, a
descendant of John Sevier and Francis Marion,
on her mother's side. She is
prominent in the social circles of Waynesboro
and Wayne county, and was an
interested and efficient coworker with her
husband in every duty performed by
him during the World war.
Frank Boyd was one of the most effective war
workers in Wayne county and
throughout the state. He put all personal
interests aside in order to devote
the greater part of his time to the promotion
of the government's interests.
He was chairman of the Legal Advisory Board
of Wayne county; chairman of the
War Savings Committee; of the Wayne County
Chapter, American Red Cross; of
the Near East Relief Committee; of the United
War Workers Campaign; the Y. M.
C. A. War Work Council; the European Relief
Council; and of the Four-Minute
men. His activities have always touched the
general interests of society and
he is widely known as a cooperant factor in
many projects relating to the
social, intellectual and moral progress of
the community, as well as to its
material development. In 1907 he published
"The Cropper and Other Poems." He
is a forceful writer and has in course of
preparation other volumes.
Tennessee The Volunteer State Vol 3, Biographies
of professional individuals
residing in Tenessee from 1769-1923