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Joseph Boyd ~ Rosanna Hodge

Contra Costa Co., CA

Joseph Boyd, the subject of this sketch, whose portrait appears in this volume, was born in County Antrim, Ireland, June 22, 1822. At the age of twenty-three years he emigrated to the United States, first locating in New York, where he resided until June 24, 1850, when he took passage on board the steamer Commodore Preble, for California, via the Straits of Magellan and Panama, arriving in San Francisco, February 15, 1851. His first employment in the Golden State was as a fireman, but afterwards reverted to his trade of baker, which he had acquired in New York, continuing in this under the style and firm of Edington, Boyd & Co., afterwards Boyd & Miller. In October, 1858, he came to Contra Costa county, purchased the property on which he now resides, comprising one hundred and twenty-eight acres, situated one mile south of San Pablo, and is now engaged in farming. He married in San Francisco, August 8, 1856, Miss Rosanna Hodge, a native of Antrim, Ireland, and has no issue. It is a pleasure to state that Mr. Boyd is much respected by his neighbors, a sure sign of his honesty, worth and integrity.


Source: History of Contra Costa County, California : including its geography, geology, topography, climatography and description; together with a record of the Mexican grants, also, incidents of pioneer life and biographical sketches of early and prominent settlers and representative men; San Francisco [California] : W. A. Slocum, 1882. FHL Film 468732
 

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