Joseph H. Boyd ~ Mina Epperly

Joseph H. Boyd, president and manager of the National Iron Works, on Havermale Island, and a pioneer of 1883, is a native of Devonshire, England, born January 6, 1842. When six years old he became an orphan and lived with his brother till eleven, when he went to sea as an apprentice. In 1857, after traveling over most of the globe, he left the sea and turned his attention to mining. In June, 1861, he went to Orofino, Idaho, the first mining camp in that state. He is now interested in many properties in British Columbia, the Coeur d'Alenes and the Okonogan country. After living on Puget Sound and in Idaho, he went to Portland, Oregon, where he gave his attention to the real estate business and to iron works for about fourteen years. In 1883 he came to Spokane and opened a hardware store, under the name of the J. H. Boyd Hardware Company. He was burned out in 1889, losing forty thousand dollars, above insurance. He started again, taking in the Weaver & Goss Hardware Company of Rochester, New York. In 1890 he consolidated with Holly, Mason, Marks & Company, and was a member and director of that firm until 1897, when he sold out. In 1887, he brought his machinery from Portland and incorporated the present company, of which he is president and manager. They are engaged in manufacturing gasoline and steam engines, boilers, elevators, architectural iron, quartz mills and crushers, concentrators, ore cars, buckets, and general mill and mining machinery, wrought iron, iron and brass castings, etc.

Mr. Boyd is possessed of unusual executive ability and owes his wealth and prestige as a manufacturer solely to his own energy and good judgment and to his splendid faculty for managing large enterprises. Socially he is a member of the F. & A. M., the K. P. and the Red Men. He was married in Portland, Oregon, August 9, 1871, to Mina Epperly, a native of Butteville, Oregon. They have three children, Edith Boyd, Edna Boyd, and Graham Boyd.

Source: An illustrated history of Spokane County, state of Washington by Jonathan Edwards; W. H. Lever, 1900.[Wash.]: Whipporwill Pub. - FHL Film 1321442

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