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Daniel Boyd ~ Jane Elliott
Hocking Valley, Ohio
Daniel Boyd, deceased, was born in the county of Donegal, in the Northern part of Ireland, in September 1794. His ancestors came from Scotland. His opportunities for obtaining an education were limited, but by improving his spare hours while learning the weaver’s trade he acquired a good education. He had a natural love of books, and was a constant reader, and in after life whatever luxuries his circumstances might compel him to forego, newspapers and periodicals were always to be found in his home. In boyhood he had become familiar with the wrongs and hardships of the Irish people. His father Robert Boyd, possessed a small leasehold estate, which he intended to divide among his four sons. But Daniel, having read of the rich land and free air of the western world set his heart on seeking a new home free from exacting titles and odious rents. Succeeding in obtaining sufficient money with which to pay his passage he came to America, landing at Philadelphia in 1819. He walked over the mountains to Steubenville, Ohio, where he found employment as a teacher and afterward as a weaver. In 1827 he removed to Keene, Coshocton County where he engaged in the mercantile business, near which place he located his parents and younger brothers and sisters who followed him to America in 1822. His business proving a failure he became deeply involved in debt. In 1838 he removed to Athens County, Ohio and settled on a farm in Carthage Township, where he died in 1867, and where for nearly thirty years he was a highly respected as a man of the strictest integrity, warm sympathy, and generous impulses. Here after many years of hard labor, he succeeded in paying off his indebtedness with its heavily accrued interest. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, and gave liberally of his means for its support, and at his house the "itinerant" was always a welcome guest. He took a deep interest in educational institutions, especially the common schools of the vicinity.
In 1825 he was married to Jane Elliott, a sister of Rev. Charles Elliott, widely known in the Methodist Episcopal denomination as a minister, editor and author. They were blessed with nine children: John Elliott Boyd, a physician, who died in Columbia in 1855; Mary Ann Boyd, who died in 1867; Jane Boyd, a prominent teacher of Athens County; Kate Boyd, Principal of the Athens High School; Hugh Boyd, a graduate of Ohio University in the class of 1859, afterward a member of the Ohio Conference of the Methodist Episcopal church, and since 1871 Professor of the Greek an Latin Languages in Cornell College, Iowa; Lucy Boyd, formerly a teacher in the Nelsonville school, but now teaching in the Orphan’s Home of Xenia; William Fletcher Boyd, a graduate of the Ohio University in the class of 1866, now attorney at law at Cincinnati; Fanny Blair Boyd, wife of Charles Lawrence, Esq., of Carthage Township; and Margaret Boyd, who taught for several years in the Cincinnati Wesleyan College and is now Principal of the High School in Martinsville, Ind. She is the first lady graduate of the Ohio University.
After the death of their father, in 1867, the family sold the farm and removed to Athens where they procured a pleasant home and where those remaining at home still live, and with them their mother, happily and contented at the age of eighty years.
Source: History of Hocking Valley, Ohio : together with sketches of its cities, villages and townships, educational, religious, civil, military and political history, portraits of prominent persons and biographies of representative citizens. Microfilm of original published: Chicago : Interstate Pub. Co., 1883. FHL Film 908209
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