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Alexander P. Boyd ~ Mattie Chapman

Hollister, CA
 

Alexander P. Boyd was born in Orange county, New York, September 30, 1825, son of Alexander Boyd. In his father's family were five sons and two daughters, all of whom are still living except two sons The parents were also natives of Orange county, and each lived to the advanced age of eighty-seven years. After attaining his majority, the subject of our sketch went to New York city and was there employed as clerk in a drug store for six years. Early in 1852 he started from New York for California, by way of Cape Horn, and arrived at San Francisco on the 1st of September of that year. From San Francisco he went to Sacramento, where for two years he clerked in a hardware store. He then sought the mines and was engaged in mining two years. We next find him at Oroville, where he conducted a hardware business twelve years. At the end of that time he disposed of his interests there and returned to his old home in New York. On this return trip he had the pleasure of being one of the first passengers to go East from this coast by rail. After a sojourn of about six months amid the scenes of his early life, he returned to California, coming direct to Hollister, then Monterey county. This was in 1869. He then began dealing in lumber, in which he is still extensively engaged, and now controls the lumber business in this part of the country. Mr. Boyd was married, in 1876, to Miss Mattie Chapman, and has one daughter, Grace, aged fourteen years. As a business man and citizen, Mr. Boyd stands high in the community where he has so long resided.
 

Source: A memorial and biographical history of the coast counties of central California by Henry D. Barrows; Micro-reproduction of original published: Chicago : Lewis Pub. Co., 1893. FHL Film 468737

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