WILLIAM H. BOYD/ANNA MAUD JUDKINS - CUYAHOGA CO, OH
WILLIAM H. BOYD. That
the Cleveland bar contains some of the ablest and
brightest minds of the legal
profession in America is a statement
requiring no special proof.
Among so many who have justly earned the
laurels of the profession,
individual distinctions are mainly based upon
special lines of service within
the profession. During the twenty-five
years he has practiced at
Cleveland, William H. Boyd has come to rank
among the leaders of the bar
and in the opinion of men well qualified to
judge he ranks with hardly
a superior as a trial lawyer between New York
and Chicago. It was the possession
of thorough natural talent and hard
working industry that brought
Mr. Boyd to his present place rather than
influential connections and
bestowed advantages during his youth. He is
a native of Southern Ohio,
having been born at Fairview in Guernsey
County, August 11,1864. He
is a son of GEORGE W. and MARY A. BOYD. He
grew up in a rural community,
attended district schools and also the
public schools of Fairview.
Like many professional men he did his time
as a teacher. He taught
school four years. In 1888 he began the study
of law under private instruction
at Clairsville, Ohio. He was admitted
to the Ohio bar in 1890 and
the same year located at Cleveland. Mr Boyd
is a member of the well known
law firm of Westenhaver, Boyd & Brooks,
with offices in the Garfield
Building. Though he came to Cleveland a
comparative stranger, Mr Boyd
soon found himself and after a few
preliminary experiences became
recognized as one of the most resourceful
advocates before a jury among
the younger generation. He possesses
exceptional powers as an orator
both in court and in the public forum,
and these qualities, combined
with a broad knowledge of the law, has
given him his numerous important
relations with the legal profession of
Northern Ohio. By dint
of long practice he has acquired the power of
swiftly formulating his arguments
and is at the same time one of the
most concise and powerful
pleaders before a court of jury.
With him his professional work
has always been supreme, and lacking the
time to give to outside interests
he has always declined to become a
director or officer in any
corporation and his public record has also
been brief. While living
in Southern Ohio he was clerk of the Village
and Township of Flushing during
1888-89. In 1897-98 he served as
assistant director of law
of Cleveland. In July and August,1891, he was
acting police prosecutor in
Cleveland during the absence of Mr Fielder,
the regular prosecutor.
In politics he is a republican and has given
invaluable service to his
party as an exemplar of fairness and honesty.
In 1905 he was republican
candidate for mayor of Cleveland against the
late Tom L. Johnson.
On September 7,1892, he married
MISS ANNA MAUD JUDKINS, of Flushing,
Ohio. Mrs Boyd died at Cleveland
September 23,1908. Their daughter
MILDRED A. died January 22,1911.
There is one surviving daughter, MARY
G. BOYD. Mr Boyd is
a member of the Euclid Avenue Methodist Episcopal
Church and belongs to the
Cleveland Athletic Club, the Tippecanoe Club,
the Western Reserve club,
and is a Mason and Knight of Pythias.
Source: BOYD, William H. (b.
August 11, 1864)from Cleveland - Special
Limited Edition, The Lewis
Publishing Company, Chicago & New York,1918
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