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Samuel
B. Boyd / Isabella Reed Boyd
The History of Knox County, TN (by Goodspeed)
Samuel
B. Boyd, of the firm of Boyd & Caswell furniture dealers, was born
in Virginia in 1828, and received his education in his native
state. In
1851 he came to Knoxville, and in 1853 married his cousin Isabella R.
Boyd, a native of Knoxville, TN; the fruits of this union were eight
children, seven
now living. In 1857 Mr. Boyd embarked in the dry goods trade, in the
firm of Piper & Boyd, which firm existed only but one year, after
which
our subject continued the business alone until 1861, when he entered the
Confederate service, serving in the ordinance department until captured
at Bristol and taken to Camp Chase, where he was held prisoner until the
close of the war. He then returned to Knoxville and became a member of
the dry goods firm Rayl & Boyd, where he remained until 1871, after
which he handled carpets and house furnishing goods alone until 1880;
the present firm was formed in August, 1880. He is a director in the
East Tennessee Insurance Company, also director of Gray Cemetery
for
the last twenty-eight years. He has been treasurer of the State Deaf and
Dumb Asylum for twelve years and trustee of the same for twenty-eight
years. For fifteen years he was secretary of the board of East Tennessee
National Bank and has been a director ever since its organization. He
was a member of the executive committee for eighteen years. He was the
second of a family of five children (two now living) born to James S.
and
Elizabeth (King) Boyd, natives of Martinsburg, VA, where the mother died
in 1833. The father then moved to Illinois four years later, and engaged
in merchandising for many years in Carmi, White County. His death
occurred in 1883.
History
of Knox Co, TN (Goodspeed)
Samuel B Boyd, MD
Samuel B Boyd, M D, junior member of the well known firm of physicians,
J M and S B Boyd, of Knoxville, Tenn, was born in that city, March 24,
1853, and is the son of Samuel B and Susan H (Mason) Boyd, natives of
Virginia. The father was a prominent member of the Knoxville bar, and
occupied a position on the chancery court bench; he died in 1855. The
mother died in 1885. Our subject was reared in Knoxville, and finished
his literary education at the University of Tennessee, entering the
preparatory department of that institution in 1866, and graduating in
1873. He at once began the study of medicine
with his brother, Dr John M Boyd, in Knoxville, and during the years
1873-75, attended the University of Pennsylvania, at Philadelphia, where
he graduated in 1875. He then returned to Knoxville, and at once began
practicing his profession which he has continued up to the present with
evident success. He is a member of the Knox County Medical Society, of
which he has served as president, secretary and treasurer, and is the
present secretary of the city board of health. In 1876 he married Miss
Maggie A Baker, a native of Tennessee, born at Sinking Creek in 1857,
and the daughter of Dr. Harvey Baker. Two children were the fruits of
this union, one, D W Boyd, is living. Both Mr and Mrs Boyd are members
of the Methodist Episcopal Church South.
Samuel
B. and Isabella (Boyd) Boyd's son Samuel was fire chief of
Knoxville, TN and there is a little bit on him at this website along
with a picture. A Bio was published on him in Who's Who in TN in 1911. I
got this from the TN state archives in Nashville. His mother's maiden
name in this article was incorrect - her full name was Isabella Reed
Boyd. This Boyd-Boyd marriage of cousins sometimes threw people.
http://www.wdbj.net/~tnknox/directories/1900knoxvillefire/1900firedept.htm
Who's
Who in Tennessee, p 213
Published in 1911
Boyd, Samuel B, chief of Knoxville Fire Department; born Washington Co,
VA, March 20, 1865; Scotch-Irish descent; son of Samuel B and Isabella
(Reed) Boyd; father's occupation, merchant; educated University of Tenn,
member of class of 1886; in early life he was engaged in furniture
business; married Julia Jackson Harrison April 28, 1904; entered public
life as Alderman when he was 22 years old which office he held
from
July, 1888-1890; Feb 23, 1900, was elected Chief of Knoxville (Tenn)
Fire Dept, when it was very small (29 men); he urged and secured passage
of appropriation measures before the Board of Aldermen, which resulted
in an increase of Fire Dept. to 72 men; member Elks, Royal Arcanum,
Kappa Sigma Fraternity; Former Chairman of Water Committee, Gas &
Public
Lights, Fire & Police, Vice Chairman Finance Com; member of
International Assn of Fire Engineers; member Presbyterian Church, South.
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