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county, N.C. Since 1881 of the reformed Since 1899 he has been West female college of

man

he has been a clergypresbyterian church. president of the Due

South Carolina.

Boyce, James Petigru, clergyman, legislator, was bom in 1827 in Charleston, S.C. He served in the confederate army as a chaplain. He was a member of the state legislature of South Carolina in 1862-66. After the civil war he gave his attention to the resuscitating and re-establishing the southern baptist theological seminary in Kentucky; and in 1874 secured pledges to the amount of ninety thousand dollars for the support of the seminary. He died Dec. 28, 1888, in France.

Boyce, Stephen, governor.

was governor

of

In 1854-56 he

Vermont.

Boyce, William D., journalist, publisher, founder, was born June 16, 1859, in Allegheny county. Pa. He established a newspaper patent inside business in Chicago, 111.; and the Saturday subsequently established Blade. He bought the Chicago Ledger; and later established Boyce's Monthly, now the Woman's World. He is president of the W. D. Boyce paper mills company; and is the owner of the Boyce office building in Chicago, 111.

Boyce, William Henry, lawyer, jurist, was born Nov. 28, 1855, in Sussex county, Del. He has been president of the Georgetown board of public education; and of the town commissioners of that place. In 1897 he was appointed secretary of the state of Delaware; and in the same year became an associate judge of the supreme court of Delaware. Boyce, William W., lawyer, congressman, 1819, in Charleston, S.C. of the state legislature of South Carolina in 1842. In 1853-61 he was a representative from South Carolina to the

was born Oct. 24, He was a member

thirty-third, thirty-fourth, thirty-fifth and thirty-sixth congresses. He took part in the rebellion as a member of the confederate congress. He served as a member of the committee on elections; and at the time of his leaving congress was a member of the committee of thirty-three on the rebellious states. He died in Charleston, S.C.

Boyd, A. Hunter, lawyer, jurist, was born July 15, 1849, in Winchester, Va. Since 1893 he has been an associate judge of the court of appeals of Maryland.

He was an acrevolution; and a man

Boyd, Adam, congressman. tive supporter of the of strong natural ability.

In 1803-05 and 1808-13 he was a representative from New Jersey to the eighth, tenth, eleventh and twelfth congresses. He died about 1820 in

Hackensaok, N.J. Boyd, Adam, publisher, clergyman, was bom Nov. 25, 1738, in Pennsylvania. He was pastor of St. James church of Wilmington, N.C; and also filled a pastorate in Natchez, Miss. He published the second paper ever

published in Wilmington, called Cape Fear Mercury. He died in 1803 in Natchez, Mass. Boyd, Alexander, congressman. In 1813-15 to he was a representative from New York the thirteenth congress. He died in New York. Boyd, Byron, secretary of state, was born Aug. 31, 1864, in Linneus, Maine. He received the rudiments of his education in the pule schools of New England; and graduated

from Colby university.

He now

fills

the

office

of secretary of state for the state of Maine.

For many years he has been prominently identified with the public and business aSfairs of Maine; and has filled various positions of trust and honor in the

gift

of

his

city,

county and state. His long term as secretary of state of Maine has made him very popular throughout the state. Boyd, David Ross, educator, college president, was born July 31, 1853, in Coshocton, Ohio. In 1878 he graduated from Wooster Ohio university of and received the degrees of A.M. and Ph. D. In 1878-79 he was principal of the high schools

in

Bellevue,

Ohio; and in 1879-80 he was principal of the high schools in Van Wert, Ohio. In 1880-88 he was superintendent of schools in Van Wert, Ohio; and in 1888-92 was superintendent of schools at Arkansas City, Kan. In 1890-1900 he was director of the national educational association and has been president of the Oklahoma board of education. Since 1892 he has been president of the uni;

versity of Oklahoma. Boyd, Ellen Wright, educator, author, was bom Sept. 8, 1833, in Winsted, Conn. She was educated at the Collegiate institute of

New

Haven, Conn. For four years she was engaged in educational work as head of the

Church school of Augusta, Maine; and for over a quarter of a century was in full charge of St. Agnes' school of Albany, N. Y. and is now principal emeritus. For more than thirty years she

was

closely

identified

with educational work. She is the author of Outlines of Religious Instruction; and Famous Art Galleries.