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William
Boyd / Elizabeth Wade
WILLIAM BOYD - It is very
interesting to note in the case of such men as Mr. Boyd, the labors
performed and the trying questions met the Colville for the ingress of
civilization. As an instance of what is required of the pioneer farmer,
when Mr. Boyd first came here, he threshed seven hundred bushels of
grain with a flail. Such marked labor as that indicates beyond
doubt the energy and stamina of the man of whom we speak. But such
was only one of many trying things to be accomplished, and suffice it to
say that in everything which presented itself to be done or solved,
Mr.Boyd never failed to find a way. Then
again we notice that the pioneers who stand so badly in need of the
various appliances for farming are obliged to pay a double price for
everything, and Mr.Boyd well remembers that the first farm wagon cost
him about one hundred and fifty dollars. Provisions were also very
high. Sugar cost him twenty-five cents a pound,and other things in
proportion. All these things but brought forth in our subject the
corresponding increase of energy to overcome and accomplished as he had
planned. Dame Fortune could not resist such wooing as that and the
result is as it should be, that Mr.Boyd is to-day,one of the leading and
prosperous men of northern Washington. Reverting more particularly
to detailed account of his career we note first that Mr. Boyd was born
in Granville county,
Canada, on March 16, 1846, the son of JOSEPH and MARY (MALONEY)
BOYD, natives of Ireland. The fact that his parents came from the
Emerald Isle,
opens to us the secret of Mr. Boyd's energy and capability. They came to
America when young and located in Canada where they remained for fifty-
five years; they went into the wild forest and with their own hands
built a home, cleared a farm and became wealthy. The paternal
grandfather of our subject was a great sportsman and owned many fine
horses and dogs in Ireland. The humble little frontier home in Canada
that afterwards became the headquarters of a prosperous farmer, was the
birthplace of seven children, including our subject; MARY, ELLEN, SARAH,
THOMAS, TAMER, JOSEPH and WILLIAM. Our subject was reared and
educated in his native place and continued faithfully and industriously
assisting his parents until he reached the age of twenty-eight; then he
came west to Colorado and afterwards mined in Nevada, Idaho, Arizona,
New Mexico and California. He returned again to Arizona and in
1887 came to Stevens county, Wa. He first selected a farm near
Spokane but sold that and came to his residence four miles south of
Chewelah where he has remained ever since. Like his father in Canada, he
took hold with his hands, staked out the wild farm, fenced it, built a
cabin and began bringing it under tribute to crops. He now has two
hundred acres, nearly all under cultivation, and about seventy-five
cattle.
In November, 1885, Mr. Boyd married MISS ELIZABETH
WADE, whose
parents were natives of Illinois, she herself, being born in Cass county
of that state in 1853. Four children have been born to this union:
JOHN, WILLIAM J., THOMAS, THEODORE, all with their parents. Mr. Boyd is
a good, active Republican and a man of substantial quality and worth; he
and his wife are members of the Congregational church.
Source: "The History
of North Washington" Published 1903
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