Colonel Louis F. Boyd

Colonel Louis F. Boyd, city clerk, has long been a resident in the west, and has been prominently connected with many of the early enterprises. It is as a newspaper man, however, that he has exerted his greatest influence. He was born in Keokuk, Iowa, May 23, 1859. His mother having died when he was only eighteen months old, he was cared for by an aunt in Illinois during his childhood. When he arrived at the age of thirteen he came to his father, who had taken as a homestead the land on which Baker City now stands. Colonel Boyd received his education at the Baker City Academy and Willamette University and subsequently learned the trade of a printer. He then come to Walla Walla, entered a printing office and soon became a part owner in the Walla Walla Watchman. He afterwards started the Sunday Epigram and was its editor and manager for some time. In May 1887, he moved to Colfax and edited the Palouse Gazette until November, when he went to Olympia and was elected enrolling clerk of the state senate for the session. In October 1888, he came to Spokane to accept a position as reporter on the Review, but before the year passed he became city editor, a situation which he retained for a number of years. In 1896 he was elected city clerk, and so eminently satisfactory has been his public service, that the council has unanimously re-elected him each year since. As a military man, Colonel Boyd has been no less successful than in the civil walks of life. He joined the state militia, Battery A, while at Walla Walla and was soon elected second lieutenant. In 1892 he received from Governor Ferry an appointment on his staff as lieutenant colonel, a rank which he held for four years. In 1896 he became inspector of rifle practice in the First Cavalry Battalion. Since joining the militia, the Colonel has been an assiduous student of military tactics, and he has now become a tactician of no moderate ability. Socially, he affiliates with the I. O. O. F., being a member of Imperial Lodge, No. 134, of this city.

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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