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CHIEF: Alastair Ivor Gilbert Boyd 7th Baron Kilmarnock |
Richard G. and Jerri Lynn Boyd 568 W. Friedrich Street Rogers City, Mich. 49779 Contact Us: RichBoyd@Speednetllc.com |
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CHIEF: Alastair Ivor Gilbert Boyd 7th Baron Kilmarnock |
Richard G. and Jerri Lynn Boyd 568 W. Friedrich Street Rogers City, Mich. 49779 Contact Us: RichBoyd@Speednetllc.com |
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Judge Robert Boyd Whitley Co; KY to Laurel Co; KY JUDGE ROBERT BOYD was born in Whitley County, KY, December 11, 1833. His ancestors, who are traced back to Scotland, came to America at an early date and first settled in Virginia, but afterward moved to Whitley County, KY, of which state his parents, SAMUEL and MARY A. (SEARS) BOYD, are natives. Samuel Boyd was a farmer by occupation, and was one of the most reliable and enterprising men of his day and community; he served in the war of 1812. Judge Robert Boyd was the sixth in a family of seven children; he was brought up in Whitley County, and in early life attended the common schools, but finished his education at Centre College, Danville, KY. In 1855 he commenced reading law with Judge Green Adams, of Barboursville, KY, but in 1856 Mr Boyd was elected circuit court clerk of Whitley County, and in 1858, during his term of office, was admitted to the bar. His term of office expired in 1862. The following year he located in London, Laurel County, and began the practice of his profession, which he successfully continued until 1867, when he was elected to the State Senate from the Thirty-eighty Senatorial District, being re-elected in 1871. In 1875 he was the Republican candidate for Lieutenant Governor, making an active race. The following year he was a delegate to the National Convention at Cincinnati, Ohio, being a candidate the same year for Congress from the Ninth Congressional District but was defeated by a small majority. In 1884 he was a delegate to the National Convention at Chicago from the Eight District. In 1886 he was elected Circuit Judge of the Fifteenth Judicial District, of which office he is the present incumbent. He has been one of the most substantial practitioners of the legal profession in eastern Kentucky, both professionally and financially, being popular socially. His political preference has always been with the Republican party, for which party he has been an earnest worker. He has never married, but to all appearances is as happy as those who have a home blessed with wife and children. Source: Source: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 2nd ed.,1885 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ NOTE:
Judge Robert was the son of Samuel & Mary A.
Sears. This is my husbands line & I recently found this his ancestor
Esther was a sister of Samuel not dau. also that they are children of Robert Boyd
& Mary Glass. This Robert s/o Robert b. 1718 in Ireland md Eleanor Porterfield...I also
found the Porterfields back to England for many generations on gen web world
connect. I have been going thru Chalkley
now that it's on the web as so many of our ancestors were in early Augusta Co.
according to the article on Judge Robert Boyd, his father Samuel was from
Scotland. I have found a lot of ancestors Carol Stanaford NOTE: Use this data as a finding tool, just as you would any other secondary source. When you find the name of an ancestor listed, confirm the facts in original sources.
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