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CHIEF: Dr Robin Boyd, MA (Oxon); MB BS; LRCP, MRCS; DCH; AFOM, 8th Baron Kilmarnock |
Richard G. Boyd NEW EMAIL ADDRESS RichBoyd (at sign) Charter.net |
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CHIEF: Dr Robin Boyd, MA (Oxon); MB BS; LRCP, MRCS; DCH; AFOM, 8th Baron Kilmarnock |
Richard G. Boyd NEW EMAIL ADDRESS RichBoyd (at sign) Charter.net |
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Alice Boyd / Albert E. Humphreys Charleston, West Virginia Albert E. HUMPHREYS, son of Ira A. Humphreys, was born in Kanawha county, West Virginia, January 11, 1860. His preliminary education was acquired in the public schools in the vicinity of his home, and later he pursued advanced studies at Marshall College, Huntington. The first ten years of his active career was devoted to mercantile pursuits, milling and lumbering, and from that to the present time (1912) he has given his attention entirely to mining, his interests extending over many of the richest mineral districts of the United States, and he is numbered among the best known and most successful mine operators in this country. His principal holdings are in the states of West Virginia, Colorado and Minnesota, and consist of coal, iron, gold and silver mines, all of which produce most abundantly. Mr. Humphreys is a Democrat in politics, and with his family attends the Christian church. He has attained high rank in the order of Free and Accepted Masons, being identified with the Commandery and Consistory at Duluth, Minnesota, and to Osman Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine,at St. Paul, Minnesota. He is also a member of the Denver Country Club, Denver Athletic Club, Denver Club, Oakshore Club of Rockport, Texas, and the Edgewood Country Club of Charleston, West Virginia. Mr. Humphreys married, November 3, 1887. ALICE, daughter of CAPTIAN CHARLES W. and MARGARET (MCMEEKIN) BOYD, of Brown county, Ohio. Children: IRA B., a successful inventor, who married Lucile Pattison; ALBERT E. JR., at the present time in Yale College, New Haven, Connecticut. Source: History of West Virginia and Its People, Vols I,II,III Charleston, WV: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1913. NOTE: Use this data as a finding tool, just as you would any other secondary source. When you find the name of an ancestor listed, confirm the facts in original sources.
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