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Charles D. Boyd, M. D. ~ Mary W. Lunt

Outagamie County, Wisconsin

 

Charles D. Boyd, M. D., physician and surgeon at Kaukauna, Wisconsin, and a representative citizen along many lines, was born at Kilbourn City, Columbia county, Wisconsin, in 1869, a son of George A. Boyd, his mother's maiden name being Zayde. The former was born in Connecticut and the latter in New York state. They came to Wisconsin in the '50s. The father was a commission merchant and produce dealer for some years at Kilbourn City, Wisconsin. He died when the subject of this sketch was eight years of age, leaving Charles D. Boyd to earn his own way. Charles D. Boyd completed the High school course at Kilbourn City and afterwards spent two years in the Northwestern University at Evanston, Illinois, and subsequently entered Rush Medical College, Chicago, where he was graduated in the class of 1891. Later he took post-graduate courses in New York City and also at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland. For the past two decades Dr. Boyd has been established in practice at Kaukauna and has been identified with medical progress in the county, serving as the second president of the Outagamie County Medical Society and president of the Fox River Valley Medical Association. He belongs, also, to state and local medical bodies and as a practitioner is well and widely known. He is no less prominent as a. citizen of Kaukauna, having been elected for twelve years as a member of the city council and in 1900 became mayor of that city. In 1899 Dr. Boyd was married to Miss Mary W. Lunt of Appleton, and they have had four children, two of whom survive. Dr. Boyd is past master in the order of Free and Accepted Masons and belongs also to the Elks and other fraternal societies.

Source: History of Outagamie County, Wisconsin : including a history of the cities, towns and villages throughout the county, from the earliest settlement to the present time by Thomas H. Ryan; Chicago Illinois : Goodspeed Historical Association, 1911. FHL Film 928279

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