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James Boyd ~ 1) Nancy Simpson,  2) Nancy Kyle

Rock County, Wisconsin

James Boyd, farmer; Sec. 35; P.O. Lima Center; born in County Antrim, Ireland, in 1823. He resolved at an early age to seek his fortune in the New World, and landed at New York in 1842, locating in Jefferson Co., Wis., the same year, where he lived twenty-two years; sold his farm, except forty acres, and settled on the farm he now owns of 180 acres in 1866. Married Miss Nancy Simpson in 1840, who died in January, 1855, leaving 5 children: Jane Boyd, Agnes Boyd, William E. Boyd, Mary Boyd and James Boyd. He married Miss Nancy Kyle in 1857; they have six children: Elizabeth Boyd,  Levina Boyd, John Boyd, Thomas Boyd, Lillie Boyd and Edward Boyd.

He is a Republican, and the family are members of the Lima Presbyterian Church. He raises cattle (short-horn grades), Poland-China hogs, and has fifty merino sheep. He had but little to start with in Jefferson Co., but "stuck to his bush" and made home and farm before he was 50 years of age.

Source: The history of Rock County, Wisconsin : containing a history of Rock County, its early settlement, growth, development, resources, etc., an extensive and minute sketch of its cities, their improvements, industries, manufactories, churches, schools, societies, etc., etc., war record, biographical sketches, portraits; Chicago : Western Historical, 1879. FHL Film 496973
 

 
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