CHIEF:  Alastair Ivor Gilbert Boyd 7th Baron Kilmarnock

Richard G. and Jerri Lynn Boyd

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Rogers City, Mich. 49779

WEST VIRGINIA HISTORY

 Index:

Elisha Boyd

W.W. Boyd

Hon George E. Boyd

John W. Boyd

Alfred C. Boyd

Shugart/Boyd

Willie Boyd

Rev William & Martha (Henry) Boyd

Alice Boyd

Capt. Charles W. /Margaret (McMeekin) Boyd

Mary W. Boyd

Gen Elisha/ Ann (Holmes) Boyd

Harry E. Boyd

Isaac Boyd

Vol I   Chapter XIX
Constitutional History
The delegates from what is now West Virginia elected to this convention were: ...... ELISHA BOYD, of Berkeley County..........

Chapter XXI
The Rising War Cloud - City, Total Pop., Slaves
Delegates were elected February 4, 1861, and on the morning of the 13th there was witnessed a scene in and around the old State House at Richmond that has gone into history as being one of the most memorable events. There convened jurists, wise men, experienced statesmen, not a few of whom had a national reputation and possessed great ability; these included such men as ex-President John Tyler; Henry A. Wise, ex-governor of the state; and many others of high standing in the councils of the nation. It was a time fraught with problems of great importance, and the people west of the mountains sent their best talent and wisest representatives over the Blue Ridge range to take part in the deliberations. The convention organized by electing John Janney, of Loudoun county, president, and John L. Eubank, of Richmond, secretary. A committee on federal relations was made up as follows:....W.W. BOYD.......

Chapter XXVII
East Panhandle and South Branch Region
Jefferson Couny--Jefferson county was formed by act of assembly January 8, 1801, from a portion of Berkeley county, and named in honor of President Jefferson. This act also made Charlestown the county seat, and provided that the first court should be held at the house of Bazil Williamson. This town was legally established in October, 1786, on lands of Charles Washington, whose Christian name it commemorates. He was a brother of George Washington, first president of the United States. At this place Charlestown Academy was incorporated December 25, 1797, with ELISHA BOYD, John Dixon, Edward Tiffin, William Hill, Thomas Rutherford, George North, Alexander White, Ferdinand Fairfax, George Hite, Samuel Washington, Thomas Griggs and Gabriel Nourse, trustees. Charlestown now has a population of about 350. It is now usually spelled Charles Town, to designate it from the county seat of Kanawha county, Charleston. It was here that John Brown was tried and executed in 1859. Other cities of this county which are full of historic interest are Shepherdstown and Harper's Ferry.

Vol II
History of West Virginia and the People

HON. GEORGE E. BOYD, who is very well known in legal circles in West Virginia, has been a resident of Wheeling since 1850. He was born in Cumberland, Guernsey county, Ohio, in 1839. The father of the subject of this sketch was born in November, 1812. He removed from Ohio to Wheeling in 1850, where he was engaged in the wholesale dry goods business with Mr. Ott. After Mr. Ott's death he carried on the business alone until 1858, when he went to Philadelphia, where he engaged in the banking business. He remained in Philadelphia until 1867, when he moved to Chase City, Mecklenberg county, Virginia. He died in 1902. His wife has been dead for three years. They enjoyed sixty-four years of married life. His children are living in New York City and in New Jersey. One son, JOHN W. BOYD, deceased, was for many years engaged in the wholesale grocery business in Wheeling, and GEORGE E., the subject of this sketch, has always lived in this city since he first came here. George E. Boyd received his primary education in Wheeling, and in 1858, at the age of eighteen years, was graduated from  Washington and Jefferson College. He then attended the Cincinnati Law School and graduated from that institution in 1860.He was admitted to the bar of Ohio county in December, 1861. Judge Boyd at once took up the general practice of law. His father-in- law, Hon. Alfred Caldwell, was appointed consul at Honolulu, and until 1867 Judge Boyd carried on the business under the name of Caldwell & Boyd. In 1867 Judge Boyd went to New Martinsville, Wetzel county, West Virginia, where he remained five years. During 1871-72 he acted as prosecuting attorney for that county. In 1872 he returned to Wheeling and practiced here until 1876, when he was elected to the bench as judge of the county court. He served in this office until 1881,when he was chosen judge of the circuit court, and served in this capacity until January 1, 1889. During this time Judge Boyd turned over some of his legal business to Hon. Joseph F. Paull. Since 1889 Judge Boyd has followed the general practice of law. He has always had a large and lucrative practice, and has met with great success in his chosen profession. He is well known in Wheeling and in this section of West Virginia, having won the confidence and esteem of all who have come in contact with him. JUDGE BOYD married a daughter of HON. ALFRED CALDWELL. He has a son, G.E., who was graduated from the law department of the University of West Virginia in 1886, after which he attended the law school of the University of Virginia. Judge Boyd's son, ALFRED C., deceased, was a newspaper man. His daughter, BEULAH, is the wife of Charles M. RITCHIE, of Fairmont, West Virginia.

Zachariah(2) SHUGART, son of Lieutenant Zachariah(1) and Mary Elizabeth
(Mulholland) SHUGART, was born March 25. 1754. He married Eve Grimm, April 19, 1785. The family Bible of this Zachariah is in the possession of his great- grandson, Charles Theodore Shugart, of Charles Town, West Virginia. The Bible is in German, though the records are in English. It is profusely illustrated in the ornate and quaint German style of that day, and heavily bound in rawhide with brass clasps. It is an interesting and valuable relic and is highly prized by its owner both as an heirloom and an antiquity. It was printed at the press of John Andrea, of Nuremburg, in the year 1728. In this Bible stands the record of the children of Zachariah (2) as follows:.......Elizabeth SHUGART, born June 19,1805; married a MR. BOYD.

Charles Patrick LYNCH, son of Vanlinden S. and Parmelia (Conrad) Lynch, was born at Hacker's Valley, Webster county, West Virginia, October 15, 1881. He has studied at several institutions of advanced grade, the West Virginia Wesleyan College, Weaverville College at Weaverville, North Carolina, and the medical department of the University of Louisville in Louisville, Kentucky, but is not a graduate. During the years since 1905 Mr. Lynch has spent a large part of his time on the west coast of Mexico, in the states of Sonora and Sinaloa, and he has gained a wide acquaintance with the people of that region and with business conditions there. He is interested in Mexican mining properties; seven years ago, in 1906, he was one of four to denounce the now well-known San Lorenzo mine, in Arizpe district, state of Sonora, Mexico. Mr. Lynch's home is at Buckhannon, West Virginia. He married, at Paul's Valley, Indian Territory, May 27, 1903, WILLIE, daughter of REV. WILLIAM and MARTHA (HENRY) BOYD, of Dexter, Texas. Children: WILMA, bn October 18,1904; BOYD CONRAD, bn January 10,1911.

Vol III
Addenda and Errata

Albert E. HUMPHREYS, son of Ira A. Humphreys, was born in Kanawha county, West Virginia, January 11, 1860. His preliminary education was acquired in the public schools in the vicinity of his home, and later he pursued advanced studies at Marshall College, Huntington. The first ten years of his active career was devoted to mercantile pursuits, milling and lumbering, and from that to the present time (1912) he has given his attention entirely to mining, his interests extending over many of the richest mineral districts of the United States, and he is numbered among the best known and most successful mine operators in this country. His principal holdings are in the states of West Virginia, Colorado and
Minnesota, and consist of coal, iron, gold and silver mines, all of which produce most abundantly. Mr. Humphreys is a Democrat in politics, and with his family attends the Christian church. He has attained high rank in the order of Free and Accepted Masons, being identified with the Commandery and Consistory at Duluth, Minnesota, and to Osman Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, at St. Paul, Minnesota. He is also a member of the Denver Country Club, Denver Athletic Club, Denver Club, Oakshore Club of Rockport, Texas, and the Edgewood Country Club of Charleston, West Virginia. Mr. Humphreys married, November 3, 1887. ALICE, daughter of CAPTAIN CHARLES W. and MARGARET (MCMEEKIN) BOYD, of Brown county, Ohio. Children: IRA B., a successful inventor, who married Lucile Pattison; ALBERT E. JR., at the present time in Yale College, New Haven, Connecticut.

Charles James FAULKNER, son of James and Sarah (Mackey) Faulkner, was
born at Martinsburg, Virginia. He was educated there and at Georgetown College. He became prominent as a lawyer at Martinsburg. He held many public positions: member of legislature of Virginia, member of congress, minister to Paris, France, and delegate to both the conventions in Old and West Virginia. During the civil war he was on the staff of General "Stonewall" Jackson, ranking as senior adjutant-general and lieutenant-colonel. General Jackson refers to him in his memoirs as being of great service to him in making up his reports. He died at Martinsburg, West Virginia, November 1,1884. He married MARY W. BOYD, of Martinsburg, who died at that place, aged seventy-two years, daughter of GENERAL ELISHA and ANN (HOLMES) BOYD. Children: DAVID FAULKNER, who was twice senator, governor of Mississippi, also in congress in Virginia, three times; JUDGE HUGH FAULKNER, of the general court of Virginia; MAJOR ANDREW HUNTER FAULKNER, who was noted for his gallantry, killed at Mackinac, November, 1812-14; MARY W. FAULKNER.  

GENERAL ELISHA BOYD was born in Berkeley county, Virginia, October 6, 1769, and educated at Liberty Hall Academy, now Washington and Lee University. He was frequently elected to the state legislature, and was state's attorney many years. He was also a member of the convention of 1829-30.  See More

HON. ELISHA BOYD FAULKNER, son of Charles James and MARY W. (BOYD) Faulkner, was born at "Boydsville", near Martinsburg, in what is now West Virginia, July 24, 1841. He spent his early days there, attending the private schools there provided, also attending the Winchester Academy and had a private tutor. Later he entered Georgetown College; the University of Virginia; attended lectures on constitutional law in Paris, France, and was attached to the legation of the United States. He has made law his life work. From 1867 to 1872 he lived in Kentucky, leaving Virginia on account of the "test oath" required to be taken at that date. In 1872 he returned to Martinsburg to practice law again. He was elected to the house of delegates in 1876; to the state senate in 1878; declined the presidency of the senate; appointed a member of the revising committee by the legislature to revise the laws of the state; was defeated for the nomination for governor at Wheeling, 1884; was tendered during President Cleveland's administration the office of consul general and agent to Cairo, 1885, also minister to Persia, both being declined. He was appointed judge of the thirteenth judicial district, and has been re-elected three terms since, with little opposition. In all he has served on the bench more than twenty-one years, declining again the candidacy of the office. When appointed judge he was attorney for the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company, for the Cumberland Valley road and other corporations. He is a trustee of the Berkeley Springs Corporation. Politically he is a Democrat. Judge Faulkner's war record is as follows: He first entered the Wise Artillery; second, the Rockbridge Artillery; third, appointed on the staff of Governor Letcher; fourth, appointed captain in the provisional army of the Confederacy. He was captured at the battle of Piedmont, June, 1864, when General W. E. Jones was killed. He was taken a prisoner and confined on Johnson's Island for one year. He received wounds in the ear, at the first battle of Manassas, from the fragment of a bursting shell. He was in many engagements, including those at Manassas and Cedar Creek. He fought as he believed was right and made a brave soldier in one of the greatest civil conflicts the world has ever witnessed.

HARRY E. BOYD - Warwood

James MCDONALD was born in Marshall county, Virginia, and was by trade a
carpenter; he was also engaged in contracting. He married Elizabeth Miner. Their children were: William P.; Henry; MARTHA, married ISAAC BOYD; Dora, married Andrew Ebbert; Elizabeth, married John Turner, and died in 1911; and George.

Source: History of West Virginia and Its People, Vols I,II,III Charleston, WV: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1913.

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