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William P. Boyd ~ 1) Marion Phillips, 2) Della Isenbarger Phillips

Clinton County, IN
 

One of the business men of Colfax, Clinton county, who has learned the secrets of success in life is William P. Boyd, proprietor of livery, sale and feed stable, also a dealer in carriages, buggies and wagons, a man widely known about the county and respected by all, for his dealings with his fellow men have ever been above board, straight from the shoulder out and based on the highest standards of business ethics, so that his patrons and customers are always well satisfied with the treatment which he uniformly accords them; in short, he believes in the old adage of living and let live. While passing through life he does not believe in laboring solely for his own aggrandizement, but in giving a neighbor a helping hand occasionally, which is the true spirit of brotherhood and the true source of happiness.

Mr. Boyd was born in Montgomery county, Indiana, on a farm, August 4, 1851, and he spent his boyhood years on a farm, assisting with the general work there, and during the brief winter months he attended the common schools of this locality. He is a son of John Boyd and wife. The father, born in Ohio in 1829, spent his life in general farming and stock raising, and was an honest, industrious man who was liked by all his neighbors. In 1853 he removed with his family to Clinton county, when our subject was two years old, and settled in a heavily timbered section, establishing there the future home of the family. He set to work with a will, being a man of grit and perseverance, and, in due course of time, he had cleared his land, had a good productive farm under cultivation and was raising an excellent grade of live stock. There the parents of our subject spent the balance of their lives, the father dying there in July, 1900, at the age of seventy-one years, the mother in Lafayette, Ind., in the year 1907, at the age of seventy-six years. Five children, one son and four daughters, were born to John Boyd and wife.

The subject of this sketch devoted the earlier years of his life to general agricultural pursuits and met with a large measure of success from the start. He was owner of a finely improved and productive farm of one hundred and forty acres, three miles east of Colfax, known as the Valley Stock Farm, and which was regarded as one of the choice farms of that section of the county, and abundant harvests repaid Mr. Boyd annually for his toil and good management. But finally deciding to enter the business arena he removed to Colfax a number of years ago and is now operating one of the most popular livery, feed and sale stables in this section of the country, being well equipped in the way of horses, buggies, etc., to accommodate the traveling public. He is also a dealer in buggies, wagons and carriages, handling an excellent line of standard makes on which he has built up a wide and constantly growing trade with the surrounding country. His barn is near the Union station and convenient to the business center of Colfax. It is thirty-six by sixty feet, with an addition of fifty by sixty feet. His carriage room is twenty by sixty feet. His aim is always to give his many customers honest and satisfactory treatment, his prices and terms always being reasonable.

Mr. Boyd was married in February, 1901, to Della Phillips (nee Isenbarger), who was born in 1857 in Clinton county, and is a daughter of George and Annie Isenbarger. Mr. Boyd had formerly been married to Marion Phillips. To our subject and wife one son has been born, Charles A. Boyd, now fourteen years of age. Opal Davis also lives with them.

Politically Mr. Boyd is a Democrat, and is a member of the Church of God. Physically he is of large proportions, being five feet and eight inches tall and weighing two hundred and ten pounds, but is very active and a good business man and popular in Clinton county, where he has lived practically all his life.
 

Source: History of Clinton County, Indiana : with historical sketches of representative citizens and genealogical records of many of the old families by Joseph Claybaugh; Indianapolis, Ind. : A.W. Bowen, 1913.

FHL Film 934900

 

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