Misc. Ohio Boyd data
Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio History
Vol. 1
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page 236
BOYD,WILLIAM W., Professor
of School Administration and Dean of the
College of Education.
BOYD,JAMES ELLSWORTH, Professor
of Mechanics.
page 263
M.L. Boyd
page 322
Among the pioneers prior to
1858 were the families of: BARTLEY BOYD,
WILLIAM BOYD, ROBERT BOYD.
The the original founders of the township,
were JAMES BOYD, John Hayden,
John Patterson, and W. Renter and their
families.
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Vol. 2
page 165
In 1896 Mr. SIMS was united
in marriage to Miss NORA BOYD.
Source:Taylor, William Alexander.
History of Columbus and Franklin
County, Ohio, Chicago: S.J.Clarke
Publishing Co., 1909.
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Hamilton County, Ohio History
CHAPTER XI MILITARY HISTORY OF HAMILTON COUNTY:
Died: Sergeant WILLIAM BOYD
page 105
BOYD,James
BOYD,Benjamin
BOYD,Thomas M.
BOYD,Thomas
BOYD,Charles
page 162
BOYD,Charles
page 163
BOYD,James
BOYD,Adam C.
Discharged:
Sergeant JOHN M. BOYD
WILLIAM P. BOYD
CHAPTER XX CIVIL LIST OF HAMILTON COUNTY:
The First Convention, 1802
CHARLES W. BOYD
page 310
A few enterprising residents
of Green township started the first Harvest
Home organization in the county.
On the Fourth of July, 1860, a little
group of citizens, comprizing
Messrs. R.H. Fenton, W.L. Carson and
N.Gregory,happening to meet
in one of the central groves of the
township, the Suggestion of
a regular Harvest Home was started by
Mr.Fenton, and cordially acceded
to by the others. Several townships had
previously made spasmodic
experiments in this direction, but had all
proved failures after a short
run. The foundations of the new Harvest
Home were more strongly laid.
Judge Robert Moore was secured as
president, and drafted the
original constitution of the Home. Mr. Samuel
W. Carson, now vice-president,
was also the first to fill this office.
Mr.JOSEPH B. BOYD was secretary;
Nehemiah Gregory, treasurer; S. W.
Carson, R. H. Fenton, James
Wise, Samuel Benn and James Veasey were
directors.
Source: Ford, Henry A., Kate
B. Ford, History of Hamilton County, OH,
Cleveland, OH: L.A. Williams
1881
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Ohio Biographical Sketches, 1876
W.F. BOYD, lawyer, Cincinnati.
JAMES A. BOYD "Sandy",worked
at the Toledo Republican newspaper,
an accomplished job-printer.
REV. J.R. BOYD, Methodist Episcopal Church at Lancaster,Ohio.
Hon. JOHN H. HUDSON, Grain
Dealer and Senator from the Thirtieth
District of Ohio, was born,
July 5th, 1824,in Auburn, New York,and is
the son of Emmanuel D. and
MARGARET (BOYD) Hudson, his father being a
produce dealer and a contractor
on the public works of the State. He was
educated in the common schools
of his native city, completing his
studies in the higher academy.
When twenty years of age he began the
study of law; but becoming
dissatisfied, withdrew after a short time, to
accept the position of Conductor
on the Auburn & Syracuse Railroad,
where he was so occupied for
about three years. Subsequently, in 1852,
he became the Assistant Superintendent
of the Buffalo & Erie Railroad,
and finally General Superintendent
of the same,continuing therein until
1856. In the autumn of the
last-named year he accepted the position of
Superintendent of the Mad
River & Lake Erie Railroad--now known as the
Cincinnati & Sandusky
Railroad--which he retained until the spring of
1861. In the same year he
contracted with the United States government
to ship Indian goods to all
the Western reservations, and was engaged in
that service for two years
thereafter. In 1863 he was appointed a
special agent of the United
States Treasury Department, and held the
same for one year. He was
next commissioned, in 1864, Collector of the
Customs for the port of Norfolk,
Virginia, which had been reopened for
business, and remained in
that office until July, 1865, when he was
appointed Assessor of Internal
Revenue at Richmond, in the same State.
He held that position until
January, 1870, when he removed to his old
home at Sandusky, Ohio, and
engaged in the grain trade, in which he is
still largely interested.
He was elected, on the Democratic ticket, in
1873, to the State Senate,
and during his service in that body has been
a member of many important
committees, including those of Manufactures
and Commerce, Railroads and
Turnpikes, Finance,Benevolent Institutions,
State Buildings, and is the
Chairman of the Committee on Corporations
other than municipal. Although
filling so large a number of positions,
he has never been a seeker
of office; his well-known ability of
administration and supervision
being recognized, he was appointed to the
several public stations without
solicitation on his part. He was
married, October, 1852, to
Elizabeth A., daughter of the Reverend Samuel
G. Orton, D. D., of Chautauqua,
New York, and is the parent of but one
child,Henry F. Hudson. Mr.
Hudson was re-elected to the State Senate of
Ohio in 1875, on the Democratic
ticket, for two years, although his
party was in a minority. He
was again appointed on the Finance
Committee, and also on those
of Currency,Library, Manufactures and
Commerce, Soldiers' and Sailors'
Orphan Home, Schools for Imbecile
Youth, and Temperance.
HON. DANIEL MCLEAN. He was
married in 1830 to HELENA, daughter of DR.
JOHN BOYD, a prominent physician
and early pioneer of Highland County,
Ohio. She died in 1849, having
been the mother of five children. He was
again married in 1852 to Mary
Sprague, a native of Berkshire county,
Massachusetts, who died in
1854. He was united in marriage, in 1856, to
Matilda, daughter of Isaac
Hagler, an early pioneer of Fayette county,
who is still living.
Source:The Biographical Encyclopedia
of Ohio of the Nineteenth Century.
Columbus, OH: Galaxy Publishing
Co., 1876.
Portage County, Ohio
OSMAN THOMAS, retired farmer,
P.O. Streetsborough, was born in Jefferson
County, N.Y., February 9,
1809; son of John and Lois (Farr) Thomas, who
settled in Streetsboro, this
county, in 1829. They had eight children:
Osman; David (deceased); JULIA
A; WIFE OF ANDREW BOYD; James; MARIA
P.,DECEASED WIFE OF ICHABOD
BOYD; William F.; Roswell and John W.
(deceased). Our subject was
twenty years of age when his parents settled
a mile and a quarter west
of Streetsboro Center, clearing and improving
the farm, and on which he
resided until 1850, when he removed to and
resided for twenty years on
the farm now owned by N.B. Jenkins. He then
went to Akron, but at the
expiration of a year and a half returned to
the old homestead in Streetsboro
Township, which he still owns,
remaining there until 1879,
when he removed to Streetsboro Center, where
he now resided. Mr.
Thomas was married, January 11, 1837, to Lois J.,
daughter of William Matthews,
of Westfield, Mass., and by her he has had
five children: Willard
W., Juliette (wife of Dr. L.D. Stockon),
Jefferson, Millicent (wife
of George L. Andrews), and Delos (deceased).
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas are members
of the Baptist Church, with which he has
been connected fifty-one years,
serving as Deacon for forty years. He
has served the township as
Justice of the Peace three terms, and has
held other minor offices;
in politics he is a Republican.
Source: "History of Portage
County, Ohio" published by Warner, Beers &
Co., Chicago, 1885
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Darke County, Ohio - SAMUEL BOYD
Among the first settlers of
Greenville was Azor Scribner. Late in 1806
or early in 1807, he came
to Greenville with a small stock of Indian
goods, including tobacco and
whisky, and began business in a cabin built
by a Frenchman who had deserted
the same two years before because of the
thieving depredations of the
Indians. He did not bring his family,
consisting of a wife and two
daughters, from Middletown until 1808, but
what time of the year is not
known. It is conceded that the first white
man who,with a wife and children,
emigrated to the county and settled in
Greenville township was SAMUEL
BOYD, who came in 1807 and built himself
a cabin about two and one-half
miles north by east of the site of Fort
Greenville on the bank of
a branch that yet goes by the name of BOYD'S
CREEK. Boyd was a native
of Maryland, had lived in Kentucky, and was
probably married there before
he emigrated to Ohio and had, as far as we
are able to learn, stopped
one or two years near the Miami in Butler
county, before emigrating
to the wilderness, that, two years afterward,
created the county of Darke.
Boyd lost his wife about 1816, and she was
the first person buried in
the old graveyard below the railroad bridge;
the early settlers having
previously used as a cemetery the lot on which
the Catholic church is erected,
but during the occupancy of the fort by
General Wayne's's army his
hospital was located on the lot now occupied
by Judge George A. Jobes,while
his graveyard was located upon the lot
now occupied by the dwelling
house of R.S. Frizell. Boyd died in 1829
or 1830; one of his daughters,
the wife of John Carnahan, had died in
1821 or 1822; and another,
the wife of Robert Martin, lived until about
thirteen years ago, recognized
as the oldest inhabitant of the county at
that time.
Source: A Biographical History
of Darke County, Ohio, published in
Chicago by the Lewis Publishing
Company, 1900.
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J.W. POLLEY, who has been a
member of the bar of Jay County since
October, 1884, is a native
of Darke County, Ohio, born September 9,
1845. He was reared to the
vocation of a farmer in his native county,
and received a fair common
school education. At the age of eighteen
years he began teaching school,
but before completing his first term he
enlisted, in February, 1864,
in Company G, Eightieth Ohio Cavalry, and
served until the close of
the war, his regiment operating in Virginia
the greater part of their
term of enlistment. On his return from the
army, desiring to fit himself
thoroughly for a teacher, he took a course
at the Southwestern Normal
at Lebanon, and subsequently engaged in
teaching school, following
his profession successfully until 1883. He
became a resident of Jay County,
Indiana, in April, 1874, when he
purchased a farm on section
16, Wayne Township, which he still owns. The
same year, 1874, he engaged
to teach a normal institute at Winchester,
and before the close of the
session he was appointed principal of the
high-school at that place,
where he remained three years. He then held
the position of superintendent
of the city schools at Pendleton, Madison
County, for one year, when
he came to Portland, and for four years had
charge of the high-school
of this city, after which he taught in the
Camden schools for one year.
At present Mr. Polley is principally
engaged in loaning money and
dealing in real estate. Politically he
affiliates with the Republican
party. Mrs. Polley was formerly MISS
JENNIE BOYD. She is a native
of Darke County, Ohio.
Source: BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL
RECORD OF JAY AND BLACKFORD
COUNTIES,INDIANA The Lewis
Publishing Company, 1887
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Allen County,Ohio
The following accounts have
been filed in the Probate Court of Allen
Co., Ohio and will be for
hearing on Monday Jan. 6,1879:
Second and Final account of
Samuel BIDDINGER, guardian of Catharine BOYD
Source: Allen County Democrat
1879
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Pioneer Marriages in Allen
County
April 1859 By H. Reeder JP,
Edward LICHTY to Charlotte BOYD
Source: Lima Democrat April
1859
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Portage County, Ohio
ERASTUS CARTER, farmer, P.O.
Ravenna, son of Erastus, Sr., and Lois
(Fuller) Carter, was born
May 25, 1808, in Ravenna Township, this
county. He shared the
usual lot of pioneer boys and attended the
limited schools of those early
days. He married, in January, 1832, Miss
Hannah Skiff, who died in
May, 1837, aged twenty-five years, leaving
three children now living
in Iowa: Ira R., Julius E. and MARION H; WIFE
OF DR. J.R. BOYD.
Source: History of Portage
County, Ohio published by Warner, Beers &
Co., Chicago, 1885
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MIAMI COUNTY, OHIO
Miami County, Ohio Recorder's Index 1807-1865
24 Jun 1854 Boyd, A.G.
> Boyd, John J. Lena Lots
13 Jan 1832 Boyd, Andrew
> Warfield, James Newton Twp
22 Jan 1842 Boyd, Andrew
< Boyd, Nathaniel "Power of attorney"
05 Mar 1847 Boyd, Andrew
> Eller, Jacob Milton Lot
05 Sep 1851 Boyd, Archibold
G. < Frazee,Thomas N. Lena Lots
16 Mar 1855 Boyd, Erastus
B. < Low, Asahel M. Milton Lot
02 Feb 1860 Boyd, John J
< Robbins, Rebecca Lena Lot
24 Jun 1854 Boyd, John J.
< Boyd, A.G. Lena Lots
11 Apr 1854 Boyd, Jonathan
< Swauger, Francis Charleston Lot
16 Jan 1861 Boyd, Mercer P.
> Kessler, John H. Milton Lot
02 Apr 1862 Boyd, Mercer P.
< Locke, W.W.,Susan Union Twp.
07 Dec 1840 Boyd, Nathaniel
< Hoover, Abraham Milton Lot
26 Dec 1848 Boyd, Nathaniel
> Eller, Jacob Milton Lot 39
09 Mar 1849 Boyd, Nathaniel
> Jay, Jesse Milton Lot 39
13 Jun 1861 Boyd, Sarah Jane
< Brecount, John D. Conover Lot
Source: Miami County, Ohio
Recorder's Index 1807-1865
Miami County, Ohio
BROWN TOWNSHIP
BOYD, A.G. page
321
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SECRET SOCIETIES
Masons in Lena. The
charter for Social Lodge, No. 217, was issued
October at Chillicothe.
The charter members were as follows: G.C.
Smith, George Throckmorton,
J.W. Kelly, H.S. Carmony, J.W.Loy,
A.C.Larone, N.Jackson, A.G.BOYD
and Amos Flowers.
Source: 1880 History of Miami
County Ohio
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The History of Tuscarawas County, Ohio
HUGH KELLY, farmer and proprietor
of iron mine, P.O. New
Philadelphia, was born March
6, 1815, in St. John, New Brunswick, the
second child of a family of
ten children. His mother, Jerusha Kelly, was
accidentally drowned in the
Bay of Fundy in 1835. His father, James More
Kelly, was a merchant, ship-builder,
lumber dealer and proprietor of
vessels plying on the Atlantic.
Hugh was united in marriage, Dec 4,
1835, with Rosanne Steeves,
also a native of the province. They
emigrated to Ohio in 1836,
and after living for six years in Harrison
County came to this county
and township. Ten children have been born
unto them -Catherine,wife
of John Minnis; Margaret, wife of Andrew Van
Buskirk, of Allen County;
MARY, WIDOW OF ALBERT BOYD; William, of
Lockport; James, who was killed
while in service in 1865; Henry,
deceased, and John, Ellen,
Thomas and Harvey, at home. Mr. Kelly's farm
is underlaid with a vein of
blackband iron ore. He has opened a mine and
operated it profitably for
several years. He is a Republican; has held
various township offices,
and is esteemed an upright, reliable and
influential citizen. Himself
and wife are members of the German Baptist
Church.
Page 653, Sandy Township -
Justice of the Peace:
JAMES BOYD 1819; 1822.
Page 437 -Through all the movements
up to Atlanta, the Fifty-second was
busily engaged, and maintained
its reputation for discipline, courage
and endurance. From Atlanta,
it moved with Sherman to Savannah, and
thence, with small loss, through
Georgia and the Carolinas northward. It
participated in the grand
review at Washington; was mustered out there
June 3,1865, and was soon
after discharged at Columbus, Ohio. The
following died of wounds received
in action:
JAMES BOYD, at Nashville,
August 7, 1864.
Page 662, Union Township -
The following is a lsit of the township
magistrates: JAMES BOYD, 1833.
Page 663, Union Township -
The Black Horse tavern was built in 1819 by
JAMES BOYD on the southwest
quarter of Section 26, at the junction of
the two roads. It was a noted
resort in early days, and an important
stopping place on the Cadiz
& New Philadelphia road. When wheat was
hauled by teams from Harrison
County to the Ohio Canal, it was a regular
stopping place, and did a
rushing business. A dozen wagons standing in
the yard was a very common
sight. After MR. BOYD, Nicholas Swenigen, Mr.
Kent and Joseph Thompson were
proprietors of the house. It was closed to
the public years ago.
Page 664, Union Township -
Whisky was manufactured at several stills in
the township, as it was everywhere
else throughout the West in those
days, and the evils resulting
from its use became so marked that a firm
stand was taken by some settlers
against it. At the first election in
the township for Justices,
JAMES BOYD and James Gray, the two
tavern-keepers were candidates
against George Graham and John Iler,
members of the Methodist Church.
The inn-keepers opened a keg of "free
whiskey," and by this means
carried the election in their favor. The
temperance element soon after
rallied and obtained control, and have
held it ever since. The alcoholic
beverage was always an important
factor at barn raisings and
other public assemblages, until Joshua
Leggett, Thomas Milligan and
William Rutledge. Reese Baldwin and others
put forth determined efforts
against it and finally abolished it.
DANIEL P. McGREGOR, farmer
and stock-raiser, P.O. New Cumberland,was
born December 5,1835 in Warren
Township, Tuscarawas County, Ohio, and
obtained his education in
the school at New Cumberland. He was united in
marriage, March 6, 1862 with
MINERVA JANE BOYD, also a native of this
township. To this union were
born eight children, six of whom are living
ELLIOTT, MAUD, EDITH, S.BRICE,
ELEANOR, and RALPH. Mr. McGregor owns a
finely improved and well stocked
farm of 140 acres, a part of the old
homestead. He devotes a great
deal of his attention to the cultivation
and training of fine stock.
He owns several head of fine blooded stock,
both horses and cattle. He
and his wife are members of the Presbyterian
Church. Mr. McGregor is a
Democrat in politics.
Page 520 -In 1842 about fifteen
Methodists including William Hamilton
and wife, Archibald A. Hamilton
and wife and James McCreary and wife met
at the house of the first-named,
one mile south of Gnadenhutten and
organized a class. For four
years services were held in the barn and
house of William Hamilton;
then, in 1846, a frame church, 30 x 35 was
erected nearly a mile farther
south on Military Lot 4. The first
ministers were Revs. ROBERT
BOYD and William Devinney; Revs. Devinney
and Dudley served the second
year.
Page 684, Wayne Township -
A few years later, SAMUEL BOYD, from
Pennsylvania, owned and dwelt
upon Military Lot 1, on the western line
of the township. He belonged
to the United Brethren, the head of a
numerous family, and a resident
of the township until death.
Page 364 - The jury fixed the
appropriation price of Lot 199 at
$14,300,and citizens of the
county guaranteed the payment of the excess,
$6,300. The plans of the new
building (court house) filed by THOMAS BOYD
were approved by the Commissioners
June 26, 1882, and notice was given
that sealed proposals for
its erection would be received August 1.
Page 623, Perry Township -
It would not be uncommon in early times for
the two or three taverns here
to be filled to overflowing with emigrants
seeking homes in this Western
land. WILLIAM BOYD and Benona P. Evans
were early merchants.
Page 626, Perry Township -
Township magistrates of Perry have been:
WILLIAM BOYD, 1836.
Page 968 - LOUISA is listed
as widow of WILLIAM E. BOYD. She is the
daughter of Isaac and Mary
(Masters) True.
Source:The History of Tuscarawas
County, Ohio published by Warner, Beers
& Co., Chicago,
1884
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