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 HERRINGSHAWS LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. Boyd, Jackson, lawyer, statesman, author,

was born March 38, 1861, in Putnam county, Ind. He was educated at De Pauw university of Indiana. He is a successful attorney of Greencastle Ind.; and in 1903-05 was a representative in the Indiana state legislature. He is the author of The Future of the Eace; and other philosophical works.

Boyd, James, lawyer, railroad president, philanthropist, was born March 39, 1851, in J^'ayette county, Pa. In 1842 he began the practice of law; and since 1856 has been counsel for the Reading railroad company. In 1871 he was a member of the convention to revise the constitution of Pennsylvania. He is president of the Stony Creek and Pennsylvania railroad; president of the Perkioman railroad; and president of various other corporations ; and resides in Norristown, Pa. Boyd, James, educator, lawyer, jurist, was born in August, 1856, in Montague, N.Y. He received the rudiments of his education in the public schools of Lewis county, N.Y.; and graduated from the academy at Carthage, N.Y. For four terms he taught school in Lewis county, N.Y.; and was a member of the board of education. He has attained prominence as a successful lawyer of Rapid City, S.D.; for two years was state's attorney; and for six years has been county judge. He has filled the office of chief of police; has been alderman, served as deputy-sheriflf; and has been chairman of the republican judicial central committee. He has been president of the Rapid City library association. Boyd, James E., lawyer, jurist. Since 1900 he has been judge of the United States court for the western district of North Carolina. Boyd, James E., builder, packer, governor, was born Sept. 9, 1834, in county Tyrone, Ireland. When nine years of age he came with

his

to received

parents

Ohio where he

education. In 1856 tie moved to Nebrasca and as a carpenter I jiis

1891-93 he was governor of Nebraska. He died April 30, 1906, in Omaha, Neb. Boyd, James P., lawyer, journalist, author, was born Dec. 30, 1836, in Lancaster county. Pa. He graduated from Lafayette college; and was a member of the Philadelphia and Lancaster bars. In 1869-73 he was managing editor of the Philadelphia Press; and wa* managing editor of the People's Journal in 1873-83. He is the author of Lives of Grant, Sheridan, Sherman, and Emperor William I; History of the Crusades; Building and Ruling the Republic; Political History of the United States; and other works. Boyd, James Robert, clergyman, educator, author, was born in 1804 in Hunter, N.Y. He was professor of moral philosophy at Hamilton college for many years. He was the author of Elements of Rhetoric and Literary Criticism; Moral Philosophy; The Westminster Shorter Catechism, with Analysis; Elements of Logic; Last Days of a Christian Philosopher; and Memoir of Doddridge. He died Feb. 19, 1890, in Geneva, N.Y. Boyd, John Frank, lawyer, congressman, was born Aug. 8, 1853, in Connellsville, Pa. He taught district school one year. He practiced law five years in Galva, 111., and then moved to Oakdale, Neb. In 1888-96 he was county attorney; and in 1900 was elected judge of the district court for the ninth judicial district of Nebraska, and re-elected in 1903. In 1907-09 he was a representative from Nebraska to the sixtieth congress as a republican.

Boyd, John H., legislator, congressman, in New York. In 1840 he was a member of the New York state assembly from Washington county; and in 1851-53 he

was born

was a representative from New York thirty-second congress. in Whitehall, N.Y.

of

first co-

Omaha and northwestern

railroad; and elected its first president. He also built the magnificent Boyd theatre. In 1881-83 and 1885-87 he was mayor of Omaha. In

native life

state,

began

vator company, which lias a capacity of two

J

the

to the 1868,

2,

a business career. He is a successful business man of Webb City, Mo.; and senior member of the Boyd and iJunning mill and ele-



was

his

and early in

le built many houses In Omaha. He built j;he old Douglas couny court house and in

linty clerk of Douglas was elected from Buflfalo county to the first Nebraska state legislature; and in 1870 and 1875 he was a member of the ^Nebraska constitutional conventions. He was chiefly instrumental in establishing the Omaha gas works ; and for fifteen years successfully carried on the packing industry, in which he was a pioneer. He was one of the projectors of
 * ounty. Neb. As a con|tractor he graded about three hundred miles of the Union pacific railroad. In 1866 he

died July

Boyd, John Wesley, business man, manufwas born Oct. 13, 1857, in Granby, Mo. He was educated in the public schools

I

was the

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hundred barrels of and one hundred barrels of meal per day. He has always been prominently identified with the business and public affairs of his community; and has filled several positions of trust and honor. His father, Joel Marion Boyd, was born in Middle Tennessee; and his grandfather located in Newton county, Mo., where many of flour

his descendants still live.

Boyd, John Parker, soldier, was born Dec. Newburyport, Mass. He is best described as a free-lance or soldier of fort31, 1764, in