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Eli M. Boyd ~ Agnes Hyde

Lake County, IN

Eli M. Boyd, prominent farmer of Ross township, is one of the very oldest living settlers of Lake county, where he and his well known twin brother located over fifty-five years ago, when the country was largely wild and much of it still belonging to the government. Their subsequent career is a part of the agricultural history of the county, for in time they became and still are ranked among the largest farmers of the county. Furthermore, they are men of eminent public spirit, interested in the welfare of the county, and their efforts and influence have been felt in diverse ways for the benefit and unbuilding of industrial and social institutions.

Mr. E. M. Boyd was born in Lucus county, Ohio, September 10, 1837, so that he is now near the limit of three-score and ten. His father, Alexander Boyd, a native of Pennsylvania, died when Eli was seven years old, and little is known of his history. He married Elizabeth Kelley, a native of Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, and she

lived to be seventy-six years old and was married a second time. They had three children, a daughter and the twin sons, Eli M. Boyd and Levi Boyd, who are the principal characters with whom this sketch is concerned.

Mr. Boyd and his brother made their own way from an early age, although they lived with their mother and step-father for some time. They came out to Michigan and thence settled in Lake county, Indiana, in 1848, working on their step-father's farm about nine months of the year and attending school for three months. They were industrious and frugal and enterprising in their habits and methods of management, and were not long in getting started in the world. Farming has always been the work in which they have found the best field for their endeavor, and they are now the owners of six hundred acres of land in Ross and Hobart townships, containing some of as good soil as is to be found in the county. Mr. E. M. Boyd is a member of the advisory board.

Mr. E. M. Boyd was married, January 6, 1874, to Miss Agnes Hyde, and five children were born to them: George Boyd, who is married and lives on one of his father's farms; Alexander Boyd, single; Warren Boyd, who is married and follows farming; Charles Boyd, at home; Alice Boyd, aged fifteen, at home. Warren was a student at Valparaiso normal. Alice is in the eighth grade in the public school and has taken musical instructions. Mrs. Boyd was born on Wabash avenue, Chicago, September 8, 1850, a daughter of Michael and Mary (McIntoller) Hyde. Her parents are dead. There are six sisters living at present, of her family. She was educated in the common schools.

The Boyd brothers are ardent supporters of the Republican party, and have always advocated strongly the principles of the platform. The first presidential vote they cast was for Lincoln, and they cast their votes for Grant, Garfield, Blaine and McKinley. Mr. Eli Boyd has yet in his possession a vest made in the year 1856, the year that General Fremont was the first nominee of the Republican party. The Boyd brothers and wives are attendants of the Methodist Episcopal church, and give to the benevolences, and all needy are well remembered.

Mr. and Mrs. Boyd are among the leading people of Ross township, and we are pleased to present this sketch.

 

Source: Encyclopedia of genealogy and biography of Lake County, Indiana : with a compendium of history 1834-1904; a record of the achievements of its people in the making of a commonwealth and the founding of a nation

by Timothy Horton Ball; Chicago : Lewis Pub. Co., 1904. FHL Film 934910

 

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