CHIEF:  Alastair Ivor Gilbert Boyd 7th Baron Kilmarnock

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James Boyd ~ Ann C. Schroeder 

Lower Chanceford Township, York County, Pennsylvania

James Boyd (deceased), son of John Boyd, who emigrated from the north of
Ireland about 1774, and located in Chester County. When twenty-eight years old James Boyd moved to Wrightsville, and engaged in the lumber business with his brother Robert.  He came to Lower Chanceford in 1855, and purchased the John Kilgore farm, containing 600 acres, and began farming, which he continued until 1865, when he built the "Oakland Valley Mills," located about one mile from McCall's Ferry. He was married, in 1844, to Ann C. Schroeder, a native of Germany, who immigrated to this country with her parents at the age of twelve, and settled at Stoney Run, near York. They had five children: Robert Boyd, James M. Boyd, John C. Boyd, Isaac N. Boyd and Martin L. Boyd.  Mr. James Boyd, who died March 17, 1883, was a prominent member of the Lutheran Church of Wrightsville, before moving to Lower Chanceford, and took an active interest in erecting the church of his denomination in that town. He was afterward prominently identified in the erection of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Centreville. Mrs. Boyd resides at the home near Centreville.

Source: A Biographical History of York County, Pennsylvania. n.p.,1886

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