Clarence M. Boyd, MD

Clarence M. Boyd, M. D., whose pleasant home is situated at No. 2335 South Sixth street, St. Joseph, located here only a year ago, but for two and one half years was engaged in Practice with Dr. J. B. Riley near the Union Depot. Dr. Boyd graduated in the class of 1892 fro the Northwestern medical College of St. Joseph. He had read in company with Dr. Riley for four years, and under his wise guidance and direction began to practice.

Dr. Boyd was born in the state of Oregon on April 19, 1870, and since his first year has resided in Kansas, near Paola, coming to this city about five years ago. He received his education in the public and high schools of Paola, and when fifteen years of age lost his father. His mother afterward married J. F. McCale, an engineer on the Kansas City Railroad, who, on account of his connection with the company, brought his family to this city. Dr. Boyd has been self supporting ever since his sixteenth year, clerking for some time in a grocery store. He is a close student and deserving of great credit, for in spite of all obstacles he determined to gain, and has succeeded in the acquisition of a good education. Though so young in years and experience he has an encouraging future before him, and with the good start he has already made will undoubtedly before many years are past rank among the leading physicians of this city. Being pleasant, affable and social in manner, he makes friends wherever he goes, and these same qualities will prove of great use to him in the practice of his professional duties as they win the confidence and respect of patients and their friends.

Dr. Boyd's practice is mainly in the southern part of the city and extends over a wide territory. He is devoted to the profession he has adopted, and believes it to be, as it certainly is, one of the noblest, if not indeed the grandest, work to which any man can be called....the alleviation of the suffering and woes to which human flesh is heir. Though by some the pastor's field might be considered to be in some respects one which affords a wider scope for reaching the hearts and lives of men, it is an open question if the doctor does not possess the greater power, coming as he does into homes darkened with the shadows of approaching death, when he has an opportunity of offering words of consolation and sympathy such as is not afforded to the minister. Dr. Boyd is a member of the Knights of Pythias and uses his right of franchise in favor of the Democratic party. The Doctor is also a member of the Knights of Maccabees of the World and is Medical Examiner of that order.

Source: Portrait and biographical record of Buchanan and Clinton counties, Missouri : containing biographical sketches...together with biographies and portraits of all the presidents of the United States. Includes index. Micro-reproduction of original published: Chicago: Chapman Bros., 1893. FHL Film 1697481 Item 5

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