PENNSYLVANIA
York County, Pennsylvania Biographical History
York Borough:
STEPHEN
GILL BOYD is the oldest child of JOHN C. and
MARTHA (FARMER)
BOYD,
and was born in Peach Bottom Township, this county, on the 6th day
of December, 1830. On
his paternal side he is descended from an old
Scotch-Irish family that emigrated
from the County Antrim. Ireland, in
the year 1736, and his maternal
grandparents emigrated from Shropshire,
England, in the early part
of the present century, and settled near
Darlington, Hartford Co.,
Md. During the minority of Mr. Boyd, his
summers were devoted to working
on his father's farm, and his winters to
attending the district school.
Upon reaching his majority he repaired to
York, and entered, as a student,
the grammar school of the late Dr.
Andrew Dinsmore, and spent
his time, until he was twenty-seven years of
age. mainly in teaching, obtaining
academic instruction at various
educational institutions,
principally at White Hall Academy in
Cumberland County, Penn.,
and at Bryansville Academy in his native
township, and in managing
his farm, for several years farming in summer
and teaching a district school
in winter. In his twenty-seventh year,
Mr. Boyd, in order to obtain
a more thorough education, removed with his
family to Lancaster. Penn.,and
for a term became a student at the
Millersville State Normal
School, then under the management of Dr.
Wickersham. From this time
until 1866, he devoted his time exclusively to
teaching and study, teaching
in Lancaster County, Lancaster City, and in
Wrightsville, in this county.
In the spring of the year last referred
to, at the request of Prof.
S. B. Heiges, who was then county
superintendent of schools
of this county, he came to York and joined him
in the management of a normal
school,organized for the benefit of the
young teachers of the county,
with which school he was connected as one
of its principal teachers
for four years. In the fall of this year
(1866) he was elected to a
seat in the house of representatives, and was
re-clected the ensuing year.
In the spring of 1869, he was elected
county superintendent of schools
to succeed Mr. Heiges, and in 1871 he
was clected to the presidency
of the Peach Bottom Railway Company, which
latter position he filled
for the term of six years, and until the road
was completed and put into
operation from York to Delta. In the spring
of 1877 Mr. Boyd, in conjunction
with some of the more enterprising
citizens of Hartford and Baltimore
Counties, undertook the organization
of a company to construct
a railroad from Delta to Baltimore, and on the
21st day of January, 1884,
this road was completed and opened to
traffic. Mr. Boyd's
conduct as a representative was characterized by a
deep interest in all legislation
calculated to promote the educational
interests of the State and
the material interests of his own county.
During his first term he finally
prepared and secured the passage of the
bill to incorporate the York
and Chanceford Turnpike Company,in which
company, after its organization,
he served as a director until his
removal to Baltimore, in 1878.
During his second term he prepared and
secured the passage of the
bill to incorporate the Peach Bottom Railway
Company, and during this term
also he took an active part in the passage
of the bill giving to the
nonaccepting school districts of the State,
their forfeited appropriations
from the State treasury, for the last ten
years prior to its passage,
and had the pleasure of seeing Manheim
Township, in this county,
accept the system during his first year as
county superintendent. In
his second year in the office of county
superintendent he co-operated
with the board of school control of the
borough of York in the reorganization
of the schools of the borough,
favoring a comprehensive and
thorough course of study, and the borough
superintendency. Mr. Boyd,
since his withdrawal from the management of
the Maryland Central Railroad,
in the autumn of 1884, has been engaged
in educational work, having
adopted the educational platform as a
profession. In addition to
his labors on the platform, he frequently
appears in print as an essayist,
and is the author of a work on the
signification of Indian local
or place names. Much of his life has been
given to the study of literary
and scientific subjects, and no small
part of it to the promotion
of the material interests of his county.
York Borough
1863,Twenty-first Pennsylvania
Cavalry, commanded by Col.W.H. BOYD.
Wrightsville Borough and Hellam
Township
W.S.
BOYD, mercantile business.
Carroll Township
1870, S.G.
BOYD, county superintendent.
Fawn Township
JOHN
A. BOYD son of DR. THOMAS BOYD, of
Lancaster County, Penn., was
born January 5, 1811, in Fawn
Township, where he has since lived,with
the exception of three years,
which he spent in Harford County, Md. His
father died in 1836.
In 1861 Mr. Boyd was married to MARGARET ANDERSON,
daughter of Nathaniel Anderson,
of York County, Penn. Mr. Boyd moved to
his present farm of 116 acres
with his parents in 1824, and at the death
of his father inherited the
farm, and has lived on it ever since.
Fawn Township
FELIX C. HERBERT son of Gideon
and Mary Herbert, of York County, Penn.,
was born in 1803, in Harford
County, Md., and came to York County,
Penn., when very young. He
moved to his present farm of seventy acres,
in 1825, and has lived there
since. He was married, in 1825, to Rachael
Harrison, who died in 1855,
leaving eight children: William Richard,
Sarah. Mary J., Salome, Rebecca,
Elfie and Henry. His second marriage was
in 1857, to
ANABEL M. BOYD, daughter of DR.THOMAS BOYD,
of Lancaster
County, Penn. Mr. Herbert
has held the offices of commissioner and
auditor of York County. He
is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church
of Fellowship, Mr. Herbert
has always taken a prominent interest in
local polities, frequently
representing his township in Democratic
conventions. He voted first
for Andrew Jackson for president.
Lower Chanceford Township
JAMES
BOYD (deceased) son of JOHN BOYD who
emigrated from the north of
Ireland about 1774, and located
in Chester County. When twenty-eight
years old James
Boyd moved to Wrightsville, and engaged in the lumber
business with his brother
Robert. He came to Lower Chanceford in 1855,
and purchased the John Kilgore
farm, containing 600 acres, and began
farming, which he continued
until 1865, when he built the "Oakland
Valley Mills," located about
one mile from McCall's Ferry. He was
married, in 1844, to ANN C.
SCHROEDER, a native of Germany, who
immigrated to this country
with her parents at the age of twelve,and
settled at Stoney Run, near
York. They had five children: ROBERT,JAMES
M., JOHN C., ISAAC N. and
MARTIN L. BOYD. MR. JAMES BOYD ,who died March 17,
1883, was a prominent member
of the Lutheran Church of Wrightsville,
before moving to Lower Chanceford,
and took an active interest in
erecting the church of his
denomination in that town. He was afterward
prominently identified in
the erection of the Methodist Episcopal Church
at Centreville. Mrs. Boyd
resides at the home near Centreville.
Lower Chanceford Township
ISAAC
N. BOYD is a son of JAMES and ANN C. (SCHROEDER)
BOYD, of Lower
Chanceford, and was born March
12, 1853. at Wrightsville, and at the age
of twenty-five commenced the
study of medicine with Dr. Jacob R.
Spangler, of York. He graduated
from the College of Physicians and
Surgeons of Baltimore, and
in 1880 commenced the practice of medicine in
Lower Chanceford Township,where
he is also engaged in farming and
milling, and at the mill built
by his father. He was married, March 16,
1881, to MARY E. VANHYNING,
of Chanceford Township. They have two
children: LULLA A. and MINNIE
K. Dr. Boyd is a representative citizen,
and served as tax collector
for his township in 1882-83.
Lower Chanceford Township
ROBERT
BOYD son of JAMES
and ANN C. (SCHROEDER)
BOYD, was born at
Wrightsville December 4, 1846,
and was educated at the public schools.
At the death of his father
he became manager of the homestead property,
being executor of his father's
estate. In 1879 and 1880 he was inspector
of elections; in 1881 he was
elected road supervisor of Lower Chanceford
Township, and re-elected the
next year. He was married, September 28,
1865, to MARTHA J., daughter
of Daniel ROBINSON, of Dauphin County. They
have had nine children: JAMES
F., ISAAC N., JOHN E., ANNIE C., MAGGIE
J., LIZZIE J., ROBERT D.,
JESSE W. and BERTIE M. Mr. Boyd is a member of
Harbor Lodge No. 333, I.O.O.F.,
of Safe Harbor, Lancaster County. He and
his family are members of
McKendrie Methodist Episcopal Church of Lower
Chanceford. Mr. Boyd is a
descendant of a highly respected family, who
settled in Lancaster County
about 1835.
Lower Chanceford Township
WILLIAM J. ILGENFRITZ, the
eldest son of William Ilgenfritz and
Elizabeth B. Donalson, married,
January 11, 1883, to MISS ANNIE J.
BOYD.
They have one child--WILLIAM BOYD ILGENFRITZ.
Manchester Township
HENRY V. GRESS, M.D. born
in Lancaster County, November 3, 1846. His
parents were John and Elizabeth
(Von-Nieda) Gress, both of whom are
dead, the father dying when
Henry V. was but a year old. They were
natives of Lancaster County
and of German descent. September 20, 1870,
he was married, at York, to
ELLA BOYD, of Columbia, Penn., a daughter of
JOHN
BOYD. of Scotch-Irish descent. Four children were born to them:
RAY, GUY, GRACE and ELIZABETH
B. Both parents belong to the United
Brethren Church. Dr. Gress
was elected school director in 1882. He was
also one of the organizers
of the Provident Life Association of
Baltimore, Md., and has been
one of the directors since its organization
in 1882.
Peach Bottom Township
ROBERT T. FRY son of Elias
and Martha (Groff) Fry, was born at York
Furnace, January 20, 1855.
His parents are natives of Lancaster
County, but came to York Furnace
in 1854, where they still reside.
Robert was married, May 18,
1880, to ELLA E. BOYD daughter of R.K.
BOYD, of
Lower Chanceford, and has
one child--ELIAS K. He has held the offices of
clerk of Lower Chanceford
and assessor of Peach Bottom Township. His
present occupation is that
of general merchant at Coal Cabin, on the
Tide Water Canal.
Source:A Biographical History
of York County, Pennsylvania. n.p.,1886.
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Pennsylvania Biographical Sketches, 1868
JOHN BARDSLEY, City Treasurer
of Philadelphia, was born September 5,
1836, near Manchester, England,
and came to this country in 1842 with
his father, James Bardsley,
and family. In 1862 he married MISS EMILY
BOYD,
of Germantown, To them was born a daughter, LIZZIE, in 1863. His
wife died in 1864. He married
again, in 1872, Miss Mary K. Pierce, who
is still living. One daughter,
Mabel, was born to them in 1873. His
daughter Lizzie was married
to Charles B. Paettyman, of Dover, Delaware,
on January 17, 1889.
Source:Historical Society of
Pennsylvania. Encyclopedia of Contemporary
Biography of Pennsylvania,Vol.
II. Bethlehem, PA: Historical Society of
Pennsylvania, 1868.
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Pennsylvania Women in the Revolutionary War
Northumberland: REBECCA BULL,
daughter of Colonel and Mary Phillips
Bull, married CAPT.
JOHN BOYD, of the Revolution.
Source:Egle, William Henry.
Some Pennsylvania Women during the War of
the Revolution. Harrisburg,
PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1898.
Fayette County, Pennsylvania
Bullskin Township, Fayette
County, Penna
p488
WILLIAM
BOYD came from Virginia some time about the close of the
Revolution, making the journey
to his new home on the west border of
Bullskin on pack horses.
He brought with him several slaves and six
negro children were registered
as being born to these slaves from 1795
to 1809, namely, Andrew, Millie,
Ben, Prissie, Samuel and Alexander, but
of their subsequent history
nothing can be here said. William Boyd was a
man of considerable education
and served for a number of years as
justice of the peace.
He died in 1812 and was interred on his
homestead. His family
consisted of eight children: THOMAS; JOHN;
ROBERT; JAMES; WILLIAM; JEREMIAHJ,
and a daughter who married James
BARNETT of Connellsville and
Stewart H. WHITEHILL, who resided on the
Mounts place many years. After
1812, THOMAS BOYD lived on the homestead
where he carried on the distillation
of liquor at an early day. He was
a popular man among his fellow
citizens. Two of his sons: WILLIAM BOYD
and RICHARD BOYD are yet residents
of Bullskin township. Other sons,
JOHN BOYD, RANDOLPH BOYD,THOMAS
BOYD and RICE BOYD, have died or
removed. THOMAS BOYD
SR. died in 1855; JOHN BOYD, the second son, died
in 1857 at Connellsville;
ROBERT BOYD moved to Menallen township; JAMES
BOYD died in Tyrone township;
WILLIAM BOYD moved to Ohio; JEREMIAH BOYD
became a physician and after
living in Louisiana a number of years,
moved to Washington.
Source: History of Fayette
County, by Franklin Ellis, Philadelphia,
L.H. Everts and Company, 1882.
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Uniontown
p145
A.D.
BOYD. What a man makes of himself, and not what he is made by the
aid of family or the influence
of friends, is a record that he can
proudly leave behind him for
the inspection of the world; and the field
of action in which a life
career of activity or usefulness may be carved
out, need not be national
in its dimensions. Such has been the fortune
of the subject of this sketch.
He has won for himself the position in
life he now holds through
his own efforts. ALBERT D. BOYD is a native
of
Menallen township and was
born December 31, 1845,and is the son of
WILLIAM
BOYD and JANE BURGESS BOYD. His grandfather, ROBERT BOYD,
was a
native of Fayette county,
Penna, and served one term as associate
judge. His great great
grandfather BOYD came to the Shenandoah Valley,
Virginia, thence he removed
and settled near Connellsville. WILLIAM
BOYD, his son and A.D. BOYD's
father, was raised a farmer and followed
that pursuit for a livelihood.
WILLIAM BOYD died in 1880. His wife,
JANE BURGESS BOYD, was born
in Maryland. Albert D. Boyd was raised on a
farm and educated in the common
schools, and attended an academy for a
few sessions. He read
law with Judge Willson, and was admitted to the
bar March 1,1869. He
was elected district attorney and served as such
from 1871 to 1874. He
was twice chairman of the democratic central
committee of Fayette county.
With his splendid executive ability,
energy and push, his appointments
were generally designated as "the
right man in the right place."
He was married in 1872 to MISS ANNIE E.
PATTERSON, daughter of Robert
Patterson, a native of Ireland, from
whence he emigrated in about
1815. Mr Boyd has five children: ALPHEUS E.
BOYD, SAMUEL P. BOYD, ALBERT
D. BOYD,WALLACE B. BOYD, and MARY E. BOYD.
A.D. Boyd is a good lawyer,
a good speaker, is making a fine record, and
is rapidly rising toward the
head of his profession. He enjoys a large
practice, and is highly respected
at the bar.
p146
DR JOHN
BOYD is of a family that has produced a number of eminent,
professional men, as well
as men of note, gentlemen and scholars.
His grandfather, WILLIAM
BOYD, came from Kilmarnock, Scotland, and
brought a grant for several
hundred acres of land covering the present
site of the city of Halifax.
This grant bore the seal of James VI, King
of England; but his sympathy
for the American colonists during the War
of the Revolution caused the
forfeiture of his lands to the crown.
His father, REV.
EBEN L. BOYD, was a noted preacher in South Berwick for
many years. His eldest son,
DR. EBEN L. BOYD, was a graduate of
Cambridge, Massachusetts,
and had an extended reputation throughout the
Eastern states as an able
physician and surgeon, having performed some
very wonderful surgical operations
in his day. He died at Wilkesbarre,
Pennsylvania. Dr John Boyd
was a man of considerable reputation, not
only as physician and surgeon,
but as a preacher of the word of God. He
was born in South Berwick,
Maine, July 11, 1817, and was a son of REV.
EBEN L. BOYD and SARAH FRAZIER
BOYD. He was married to MARIA A. STEVENS,
daughter of Joseph Stevens
of Boston. For eighteen years (?) and was at
the time of his death Inspector
at the Custom House in Boston. His
wife, Clarissa Cushing, was
a lineal descendant of Caleb Cushing, the
latter coming over in the
Mayflower and whose portrait can be seen at
the Independence Hall Museum
in Philadelphia. Dr John Boyd was educated
in the school of South Berwick,
and afterwards read medicine with Dr
Charles Trafton of the same
place. In 1835 Dr Boyd had a call to the
ministry at Haverhill, Massachusetts,
and subsequently preached at
Portsmouth, New Hampshire,
Hampton and Kennebunk, Maine. He was a
strong advocate of temperance
and delivered lectures through Maine in
the interest of her first
prohibition laws. In 1848 on account of
failing health, he accepted
an agency for the American and Foreign Bible
Society, and visited and preached
at many of the principal Baptist
churches throughout the state.
He was the pastor at Wilkesbarre for
about five years, and later
for about the same length of time pastor of
the Baptist church at Washington,
Penna.
He came to Uniontown in 1864
and devoted himself to the practice of
medicine, and built up a lucrative
practice. He continued to preach at
Uniontown up to the time of
his death. He was endowed by nature with a
strong mind, was a hard student,
great reader, well versed in literature
and a good thinker.
For fifty six years he was a devout Christian and
his faith in the promises
of God was firm and secure, and died in full
trust and hope in them.
He was full of love and charity for his fellow
men. In his library are some
of the oldest books extant: a priestly
Bible published in 1634; Oyer
and Terminer of the city of London
published in 1730; Court of
the Gentiles published in 1674; and some
very valuable medical works.
He kept a handbook of his practice of
medicine, and registered every
dose of medicine that he ever gave. He
also kept a register of all
the patients he ever treated: giving a full
history of each case in all
its different stages. The pension officials
at Washington would often
come to Dr Boyd for dates and facts in the
history of applications for
pensions. He was made a life member of the
American Baptist Missionary
Union, Boston, September 30,1846.
He had in his possession the
family coat of arms which is several
hundred years old. The
children of Dr Boyd are five in number: JOHN
BOYD,who died soon after the
war at the age of twenty two years; EBEN L.
BOYD, died in infancy; SARAH
F. BOYD, died November 4,1882, at the age
of twenty seven; MRS MARIA
F. GRIBBLE, and MRS CLARA F. JOHNSON are the
living children, and both
reside with their mother at Uniontown. Dr
Boyd spent the last moments
of his life in helping the sick: having gone
out at 4:30 AM to see a patient,
returning home at 9:30 AM and with a
severe attack of hemorrhage,
passed away February 27, 1889, "full of
years and full of honors."
His remains rest with those of other members
of the family at Newburyport,
Massachusetts.
p484
EBENEZER FINLEY WOODWARD, a
prosperous farmer and stock raiser, was born
in Dunbar township, Fayette
county, Penna, September 11, 1840, and is a
son of David Woodward and
MARY BOYD Woodward. His grandfather,
Caleb
Woodward, came from Chester
county, Penna, to near New Salem early in
the present century.
He was born in 1799 and died October 18, 1856, and
was married to Phebe McCarty
and had six children, five daughters and
one son. Mrs Woodward
was born in 1780 and died December 4, 1856. His
father, Davis Woodward, was
born in Menallen township, June 11,1806, and
died April 6,1882. He
was a farmer and stock dealer, a truthful man and
a consistent member of the
Presbyterian church. On November 2,1828, he
was married to PHEBE
BOYD, a daughter of JUDGE ROBERT BOYD and REBECCA
(WORK) BOYD. They had
thirteen children. One of their daughters,
Rebecca Woodward, married
Hon Charles S Beatty, member of the
Pennsylvania legislature.
Mrs Woodward was born April 13, 1810. Her
grandfather, WILLIAM BOYD,
was a native of Ireland and settled in Tyrone
township. His father
was killed by the Indians on the Potomac River,
April 13, 1757. Ebenezer F.
Woodward was reared on a farm and received
his education in the common
schools and has since been engaged in
farming and stock raising.
On March 25, 1869, he was married to Elma
Cox, daughter of George Cox.They
have had ten children born and named as
follows: Elizabeth Woodward,
born January 15, 1870; Dempsey Woodward,
born March 5, 1871; George
Woodward, born June 28, 1873; Mary Woodward,
born March 2, 1875; Jessie
Woodward, born November 12, 1876; Jennie
Woodward, born November 1,
1878; Finley Woodward, born November 8, 1880;
Belle, dead; Joseph Woodward,July
29, 1884; and Elma Woodward, May 10,
1887. Mr Woodward is
road commissioner of Dunbar township and is a
member of the K of P, and
the J O of U A M at Leisenring. He is a
member of the Presbyterian
church and is a prudent, careful and reliable
businessman.
p539
WILLIAM B CHALFANT.......In
June, 1860, he was married to Ellen E
Fowler, daughter of John and
Elizabeth Fowler of Westmoreland county,
Penna. To them were
born seven children, of whom five are living:
MOLLIE CHALFANT (MRS
EDGAR L. BOYD)Mollie Chalfant,............
Source: Biographical and Portrait
Cyclopedia of Fayette County,
Pennsylvania, editorially
managed by John M. Gresham,assisted in the
compilation by Samuel T. Wiley,
A Citizen of the County, Compiled and
Published by John M. Gresham
& Co. Chicago: 1889
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Bullskin Township, Fayette
County, Penna
p488
CHRISTIAN REIST, a native
of Lancaster County, settled in the Boyd
neighborhood about 1800 and
died in 1827. He had three daughters, two
of whom married THOMAS
BOYD and Simon Roughcorn, and the third remained
single, all of them long since
deceased.
Tyrone, Upper and Lower Townships, Fayette County, Penna
p805
STEWART STRICKLER...........
The children living in Fayette County are:
Mrs
Maria Strickler BOYD;..........
Source: History of Fayette
County, by Franklin Ellis, Philadelphia,
L.H. Everts and Company, 1882.
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