Boyd, Adam – Boyle, John
Boyd, Adam
congressman. He was an active supporter of the revolution, and a man of strong natural ability. He was a representative in congress from New Jersey from 1803 to 1805, and again from 1808 to 1813. He died in Hackensack, N. J.
Boyd, Adam
printer, preacher, was born Nov. 25, 1738, in Pennsylvania. He served in St. James church, Wilmington, N. C., for several years, and also in Natchez, Miss. He published the second paper ever published in Wilmington, called Cape Fear Mercury. He died in 1803 in Natchez, Miss.
Boyd, Alexander
congressman.
He was a representative in congress from New York from 1813 to 1815.
Boyd, a. Hunter
lawyer, jurist, was born July 15, 1849, in Winchester, Va. He graduated from the law school of the Washington and Lee university, and is the associate judge of the court of appeals of Maryland.
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.
Boyer, Benjamin M
lawyer, congressman, was born Jan. 22, 1823, in Montgomery county, Pa. He was district attorney for his native county from 1848 to 1850; and was elected a representative from Pennsylvania to the thirty-ninth and the fortieth congresses as a democrat.
Boyer, Henry Kline
lawyer, legislator, was born Feb. 19, 1850, in Evansburg, Pa. He was admitted to practice at the Philadelphia bar in 1837, and practiced with success in the civil courts. In 1882 he was elected as a republican to the state legislature, securing a reelection in 1884 and 1886, and was chosen speaker in the session of 1887. He became the choice of republicans and democrats alike for the speakership in the session of 1889.
Boyesen, Hjalmar Hjorth
was born Sept. 23, 1848, in Norway. He was a writer of Norwegian birth, long resident in New York, and a professor in Columbia college at the time of his death.
He was one of the founders of the Authors' club of New York city. His novels and sketches are pleasantly written, but as essays in fiction are not much above average merit.
He was the author of Gunnar; A Norseman's Pilgrimage; Tales from Two Hemispheres; Falconberg; A Daughter of the Philistines; Queen Titania; Ilka on the Hill Top and Other Stories; Goethe and Schiller, their Lives and Works; Literary and Social Silhouettes; The Story of Norway, an historical work; Social Strugglers; Essays on Scandinavian Literature; Essays on German Literature; Idylls of Norway and Other Poems; the Norseland series of books for boys, including: Norseland Tales; Boyhood in Norway; The Modern Vikings; Against Heavy Odds; and The Golden Calf. He died in 1895.
Boykin, John T
physician, surgeon, was born April 17, 1869, in Troup county, Ga. He received the rudiments of his education in the West Point public schools, Ga.; and graduated in medicine from the Atlanta medical college. He has attained success as an eminent physician and surgeon of Carrabelle, Fla., where he owns a drug store and takes a leading part in the public affairs of his county and state.
Boylan, Will Mai
merchant, poet, was born Dec. 4, 1859, in Hardin county, Iowa. He is a poet of rare genius and the author of a brochure entitled Life's Purest Gold. Many of his poems ems have been given a place in standard publications.
Boyland, George Halsted
physician, author, was born Jan. 19, 1845, in Cincinnati, Ohio. During the Franco- Prussian war of 1870-71 he served in the surgical corps of the French army, and was decorated for his services. He was the first to introduce salicylic acid made from carbolic acid, as an antiseptic, in the United States. Dr. Boyland has been a frequent contributor to the medical and scientific press of this country, and is the author of Six Months under the Red Cross with the French Army.
Boyle, Charles E
lawyer, congressman, was born Feb. 4, 1836, in Uniontown, Pa. He was editor of the Genius of Liberty newspaper from 1856 to 1861. He was elected district attorney for Fayette county, in 1862, and served three years; and was elected a representative in the state legislature in 1865, and re-elected in 1866. He was elected a representative from Pennsylvania to the forty-eighth congress, and was re-elected to the forty-ninth congress, as a democrat.
Boyle, Frank E
lawyer, was born Aug. 31, 1871, in Dunmore, Pa. After receiving the rudiments of his education in the common schools, he attended the Mount St. Mary's college of Emmettsburg, Md.; and has since attained success as a prominent lawyer of Scranton, Pa.
Boyle, Jeremiah Tilford
soldier, lawyer, military governor, was born May 22, 1818, in Mercer county, Ky. In 1849, he advocated with great zeal the emancipation of the slaves. For meritorious conduct on the field in 1862 he was promoted brigadier-general. He was soon after placed in command of the department of Kentucky, assuming the direction of military affairs in the state, and during 1862-64 was military governor of Kentucky. He was president of and organized the original company, and under his direction the first street railway was built in Louisville, of which he was president. He died July 28, 1871, in Louisville, Ky.
Boyle, John
lawyer, jurist, congressman, governor, was born Oct. 28, 1774, in Botetourt county, Va. He was a judge of the supreme court of Kentucky, also chief justice of the state; and was a representative in congress from Kentucky from 1803 to 1809, when he was appointed governor of Illinois territory. He was a distinguished and successful lawyer and able judge. During the eight years immediately preceding his death he was judge of the United States district court for Kentucky. He died Jan. 28, 1834, in Kentucky.