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Boyd, James E

governor, was born Sept. 9, 1834, in Ireland. In 1870 he organized the Omaha and Northwestern railroad, of which he was elected first president; in 1881-83 he was president of the board of trade; member of the Nebraska state legislature; and in 1890 was elected governor of Nebraska.

Boyd, James Robert

clergyman, educator, author, was born in 1804 in Hunter, N. Y. He was a presbyterian clergyman, formerly professor of moral philosophy at Hamilton college; and the author of Elements of Rhetoric and Literary Criticism; Moral Philosophy; The Westminster Shorter Catechism, with Analysis; Elements of Logic; Last Days of a Christian Philosopher; and Memoir of Doddridge. He died Feb. 19, 1890, in Geneva, N. Y. was

Boyd, John H

congressman, born in New York. In 1840 he was a member of the state assembly from Washington county; and was a representative in congress from that state from 1851 to 1853.

He died July 2, 1868, in Whitehall, N. Y.

Boyd, Kate Parker

artist, was born Oct. 23, 1836, in New York. She won a number of medals and prizes in the Centennial exposition in Philadelphia; and in various state and county exhibitions. She writes and draws for the American Garden, of New York city, and for other periodicals..

Boyd, Linn

congressman, was born Nov. 22, 1800, in Nashville, Tenn. In 1827 he was elected to the legislature of that state, from Calloway county, serving three sessions; and in 1831 was re-elected for another session from Trigg county. He was a representative in congress from Kentucky from 1835 to 1837, and from 1839 to 1855. He also served one term as lieutenant-governor of Kentucky. He died Dec. 16, 1859, in Paducah, Ky.

Boyd, Samuel Stillman

lawyer, jurist, was born in 1803 in Portland, Maine. In 1826 he graduated from Bowdoin college; and immediately moved west. In 1837 he became a resident of Natchez, Miss. He was one of the ablest lawyers of Mississippi, and a great jurist. During 1849- 50 he attended by legislative appointment the famous Nashville convention. He took a prominent part in all movements for the welfare of his adopted state, and drafted many of the legislative bills of that state.

Boyd, Sempronius H

soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born May 28, 1828, in Williamson county, Tenn. In 1861 he raised a regiment for the war, and became its commander. In 1862 he was elected a representative from Missouri to the thirty-eighth congress; and was reelected to the forty-first congress, as a republican.

Boyd, Thomas A

soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born June 25, 1830, in Adams county, Pa. He removed to Illinois in 1856; and entered the union army in 1861, and was commissioned captain.

He was elected a state senator in 1866, and re-elected in 1870. He was elected a representative from Illinois to the fortyfifth and the forty-sixth congresses.

Boyden, Emily M. B

artist, composer, was born Dec. 14, 1828, in Morrisville, N. Y. As a needle painting artist she received first premium at the World's fair at New Orleans; and as a composer, many of her pieces are sung in the public schools of Chicago, Ill.

Boyden, Nathaniel

lawyer, congressman, was born Aug. 16, 1796, in Franklin township, Mass. He was elected a number of times to the North Carolina state legislature; and was in congress as a representative from North Carolina from 1847 to 1849. In 1868 he was elected to the fortieth congress.

Boyden, Seth

inventor, was born Nov. 17, 1788, in Foxborough, Mass. He engaged in the leather manufacture in Newark in 1813, invented a machine for splitting leather, and began the manufacture of patent leather in 1819. He made the first malleable iron in 1826, perfected the first locomotive with the driving-rod outside the wheel, and produced the first daguerreotype in America. He died March 31, 1870, in Middleville, N. J.