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P. W. Boyd

Clarion Co., PA

P. W. Boyd, New Bethlehem, a member of the firm of G. W. Arblaster & Co., was born near Rimersburg, on the old Thompson homestead, now the property of Alexander Bols. He was a son of Samuel and Mary Jane (Thompson) Boyd. Samuel M. in 1843 associated himself with J. M. Thompson and Charles D. Hatchison, under the style of Franklin Furnace Company, but owing to the unfavorable tariff legislation, and during the Polk administration the concern failed. Mr. Boyd then became book-keeper and manager of the Mahoning Iron Works of Armstrong county. Mr. Boyd's health failed in 1860, and in 1868 he settled on a farm near Rimersburg, which was the property of his wife. He died in 1868, at the age of forty-seven years, leaving a wife and nine children, eight of whom are now living. Their sons are W. H. Boyd, who now owns the old homestead; J. A. C. Boyd , now engaged very extensively in the mercantile business in Uniontown, Fayette county; L. C. Boyd , a member of the firm of L. H. Smith Woodenware Co. of Pittsburgh, also manufacturers of brooms, brushes, etc.; and P. W. Boyd, a member of the firm of G. W. Arblaster. Mrs. Mary Jane Boyd is still living at the age of sixty-five years.

Source: History of Clarion Co., Pennsylvania : with historical supplement to 1969 by A. J. Davis; published: Syracuse, N.Y. : D. Mason & Co., 1887. FHL Film 1320665

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