EDWARD B. BOYD/TRADER/GUTHRIE - NICHOLAS CO; KY 
 

EDWARD B. BOYD, merchant, Carlisle, was born in Greenfield, Highland County, Ohio, May 10, 1834, to JOHN and MARY R. (BRYAN) BOYD; he, a native of Pennsylvania, died in 1868; she, born in Bourbon County, Ky., in 1813, and is still living; they had six children, of whom, Edward, our subject, was the second.  He received his education in Ohio and entered upon his career in life as a clerk in a dry goods store, at Chillicothe, Ohio.  Later, he entered into the employ of the Adams Express Company, as express messenger, and ran on the Fort Wayne and
Chicago Railroad six months; on the Pan Handle, from Pittsburgh to Cincinnati, one year, when he became bill clerk in the office at Columbus, OH, where he remained one year.  He followed the fortunes of war during the Rebellion,from the beginning to its close, and filled the position of A.Q.M. at Mobile, Ala., for one year after the close of the war.  He entered the service as private in the 63d O.V.I. and became Quartermaster, then a Captain of same.  He was also A.Q.M. in the 1st Division of the 17th Army Corps, under Gen. Frank P. Blair, and eventually was commissioned Major in A.Q.M. and was mustered out as such in July 1865.  He was married at Zenia, Greene County, OH, in 1871, to MISS ANNIE E. TRADER, a native of that place and who died in 1872.  She was the mother of one child, a boy, which lived to be four months old.  Mr Boyd's second marriage occurred in Highland County, OH  April 16, 1875, to MISS EMMA GUTHRIE, who was born in Leesburg, OH, September 1831, and was a daughter of Capt L.C. and Elizabeth (BORAN) Guthrie, natives of Ohio.  In the year 1874, Mr Boyd moved to Carlisle, and became one of the firm in the New York Cash Store, known as BOYD & CO., and later BOYD & BECK.  He is now a silent partner in the dry goods business with J.W.B. Lee.  He is an energetic and enterprising business man; began life a poor boy and the first money he ever earned for himself was by driving cattle from Bainbridge, Ohio to Philadelphia, Pa., for Chas. Robbins, of Ross County, OH, was about eight months on the road, and returned by canal.  He is a man of generous disposition, obliging manners and merits the high esteem in
which he is held. Himself and wife are members of the M.E. Church at Carlisle. Politically, he is a Republican.

Source: History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky,  ed. by William Henry Perrin,  O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882
Civil War Service of Edward B. Boyd
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Karen from Ohio,USA            Return to Main Boyd Site