EDWARD B. BOYD - OH
EDWARD B. BOYD, merchant, Carlisle,
was born in Greenfield, Highland
County, Ohio. [sic], 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, Ohio, 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, Ohio, 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,
Ohio, April 16, 1875, to MISS
EMMA GUTHRIE, who was born in Leesburg,
Ohio, 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, Ohio, 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.
p. 733.[Nicholas County] [Carlisle
City and Precinct]
Thanks to Karen from Ohio,
USA