Frank Boyd / Laura Hassell

One of the prominent attorneys of Waynesboro is Frank Boyd, who was born at Vesuvius, Ohio, on the 30th of July, 1859, a son of G. W. and Ann (Songer) Boyd. Mr. Boyd was born in western Pennsylvania in 1827 and his wife was born in Virginia.

In the acquirement of his preliminary education Frank Boyd attended the public schools of Wayne county and at the age of fifteen years engaged in teaching school. He taught for one year and then entered Mars Hill College near Florence, Alabama, for four terms. He taught during vacations in Wayne and Shelby counties and in 1879 took up the study of law in the office of Alex W. Campbell and Judge Howell E. Jackson, in Jackson, Tennessee. In 1880 he graduated from the legal department of Cumberland University at Lebanon, and the following year commenced practice in Waynesboro. In a profession where advancement depends upon individual merit he has achieved substantial success and stands high among the foremost members of the Tennessee bar. In 1894 he was elected attorney general for the eleventh judicial district of Tennessee, composing Maury, Giles, Lawrence, Lewis, Hardin and Wayne counties. He was active in that office eight years, serving with distinction. He has always been a stanch democrat and was elected to the senate in the fifty-seventh general assembly of Tennessee in 1910, representing Lawrence and Wayne counties. While a member of the assembly he served as chairman of the committee on the refunding of the state debt. He was democratic elector on the Cleveland-Thurman presidential election ticket in 1892, for the seventh congressional district of this state. Frank Boyd is now, however, devoting his entire time to his profession and business interests. He was one of the original promoters of the first telephone line in Wayne county and the first turnpike since the Civil war. He was likewise a dominant factor in the
establishment of the first bank in Waynesboro. In 1885 he became super- intendent of schools of Wayne county and served in that important position two terms. He is now a member of the board of directors of the Wayne County College.

On the 22d of May, 1883, was celebrated the marriage of Frank Boyd to Miss
Laura E. Hassell, a daughter of A. T. and Eliza Hassell, prominent residents of Waynesboro. Mrs Boyd is a woman of much culture and refinement, a descendant of John Sevier and Francis Marion, on her mother's side. She is prominent in the social circles of Waynesboro and Wayne county, and was an interested and efficient coworker with her husband in every duty performed by him during the World war.

Frank Boyd was one of the most effective war workers in Wayne county and
throughout the state. He put all personal interests aside in order to devote the greater part of his time to the promotion of the government's interests. He was chairman of the Legal Advisory Board of Wayne county; chairman of the War Savings Committee; of the Wayne County Chapter, American Red Cross; of the Near East Relief Committee; of the United War Workers Campaign; the Y. M. C. A. War Work Council; the European Relief Council; and of the Four-Minute men. His activities have always touched the general interests of society and he is widely known as a cooperant factor in many projects relating to the social, intellectual and moral progress of the community, as well as to its material development. In 1907 he published "The Cropper and Other Poems." He is a forceful writer and has in course of preparation other volumes.

Tennessee The Volunteer State Vol 3, Biographies of professional individuals
residing in Tenessee from 1769-1923

Moore, John Trotwood and Austin P. Foster. Tennessee, The Volunteer State, 1769-1923, Vol. 3. Chicago: S. J. Clarke Publishing Co.

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