George Newton Boyd    

GEORGE NEWTON BOYD, a farmer of Elk Creek township, was born March 14, 1864, to Robert and Hannah A. (Clark) Boyd; the former was born May 25, 1835, and died June 23, 1903, and his wife who was born on September 15, 1836, died December 24, 1885. William Boyd, father of Robert, was born August 25, 1808, and died November 23, 1890, while his wife, Catharine Caldwell, was born March 10, 1804, and died April 27, 1887. He was a farmer, and settled at Enon Valley, Pennsylvania, a short time before his death. Robert Boyd was born at Enon Valley, and received an education to fit him for the ministry in the Presbyterian church, following that profession until his death, which occurred in Tipton, Indiana. He had children as follows: William C., of Los Angeles, California; George N.; and Sarah Alice, wife of Dr. Burkhart, of Tipton, Indiana. Robert Boyd had a brother, Joseph, who starved to death in the Andersonville prison at the time of the Civil war.

George N. Boyd attended school until seventeen years of age and then learned the trade of painter, at Carnegie, Pennsylvania, following same two years, and then became brakeman on the Pittsburg, Chartiers, Youghiogheny Railroad, which position he held three years; he spent another three years as fireman, and for fourteen years acted as engineer. In 1877 he settled at Albion, Pennsylvania, and in 1909 purchased the old Gregory farm of sixty-five acres; this farm is known for many miles around, as the "Sunnyside Farm,” which he has been conducting successfully since. He is a member of the Presbyterian church, of which he is an elder. He belongs to Western Star, Blue Lodge of Masons No. 304, of Albion; Oriental Chapter No. 187 of Conneautville; Mount Calvary Commandery No. 67, of Greenville; and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, E. Richardson Division No. 282, at Albion. He is an enterprising, ambitious man, and has the respect of the entire community.

Mr. Boyd married, June 5, 1888, Sadie M., daughter of Amos Eiseman, born at Greensburg, Pennsylvania, March 15, 1866, and died May 30, 1902: they had one daughter, Minnie J., deceased. Mr. Boyd married (second) Miss Agnes K. Irvine, June 10, 1903. She was born February 24, 1881, in Ayrshire, Scotland, and is a daughter of Thomas Irvine, a miner of Scotland, who died in 1890, aged thirty-eight years. His wife, Anna Toward, born February 8, 1854, was a daughter of George Toward, a native of England, and Elizabeth Smith; the former died in 1892, aged eighty-five, and the latter in 1892, aged seventy-three years. They came to the United States and settled in Alleghany county in 1879. Thomas Irvine and his wife followed a year later. Their children were: Elizabeth, wife of John Dill, of Oblong, Illinois, a machinery manufacturer; Richard; Mary Ann, wife of J. Albright, of Pittsburg ; George, deceased; Anna, living with Mrs. Boyd, and Agnes K., who is Mrs. Boyd. Thomas Irvine’s widow married (second) William Coltman, now deceased, by whom she had children as follows: Margaret M., born in 1896; Thomas M., born in 1897; and John M., in 1898. Mrs. Boyd is a member of the Presbyterian church and of the Home Missionary Society.

A twentieth century history of Erie County, Pennsylvania : a narrative account of its historical progress, its people and its principal interests, Chicago: Lewis Pub. Co., 1909, pages 443-444. More Erie County History Books   Search Hundreds of 1880s-1890s Pennsylvania County History Books for biographies and historical information on your ancestors.  View the book page images on line and print them out for your genealogy file!  Free Access to the old history books - plus birth & death records, census images and ALL other records at ancestry.com.