Andrew Boyd, M. D. ~ Johnason Moore

Andrew Boyd, M. D., a practicing physician of Scottsboro, Jackson county, Ala., was born in that county, June 11, 1866. He is the son of Dr. J. H. Boyd, who was born near Wytheville, VA., October 6, 1833, and removed to Madison county, Ala., with an elder brother, Andrew Boyd, his parents being dead, when he was a child. He attended Cumberland University, at Columbia, Tenn., but did not complete the course, returning to Alabama, and teaching school in Marshall county three years, and then removing to Jackson county where he taught school two years. He was in the meantime studying medicine, and when he ceased teaching in Jackson county, he attended the Louisville Medical college during the sessions of 1859 and 1860, and 1860-61, and the medical college at Nashville, Tenn., graduating in 1861. April 29, 1861, he entered the Confederate service as a member of company K, Fourth Alabama infantry, and served in that regiment most of the year 1861, being occasionally detailed for hospital duty. During 1862 he was detailed as assistant surgeon at Chimborazo hospital at Richmond, VA. He afterward went to a little village called Jerusalem, on Nodaway river, Va., and established a hospital of which he was made assistant surgeon, and served as such several months, and was then transferred to hospital service at Petersburg, V., where he remained until 1864, when he was sent to Raleigh, N. C., on hospital service. Soon afterward he rejoined his regiment and remained with it until it surrendered at Appomattox. After the war he returned to Jackson county, and has been engaged in the practice of medicine there ever since. He is a member of the Jackson county Medical society, and has at different times held all the offices of the society. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, and was married September 14, 1865, to Miss Johnason Moore, daughter of Andrew Moore, of Jackson county, Ala., and to their marriage there have been born nine children of whom seven survive, viz.: Andrew Boyd; Fanny Boyd; Lee Boyd; Edward Boyd; Anna Boyd; Hugh Boyd, and Mollie Boyd. Andrew Boyd, the eldest of the seven was educated first in the schools of Jackson county, and afterward graduated at the University of Alabama in 1884. He then entered the college of Physicians and Surgeons at Baltimore, Md., in the fall of 1884, and graduated there in 1887. He then spent a year the hospital at Baltimore, and returned to Alabama locating in Larkinsville, where he practiced with his father for a year. He then removed to Scottsboro and in November 1888, formed a partnership with Dr. J. P. Rorex which still exists. Dr. Andrew Boyd is a member of the Jackson county Medical society, and of the Alabama Medical association. He has been a member of the board of censors since 1888, and also secretary of the society since that time. He was elected vice-president of the Tri-State, Alabama, Tennessee and Georgia Medical association in 1890, and served one term. He has been surgeon of the Third regiment Alabama state troops since 1889, and is a member of the Knights of Pythias. He has contributed papers to the New York Medical News , to the Alabama Medical and Surgical Age, and to the Southern Medical Journal at Atlanta.

Source: Memorial Record of Alabama: A Concise Account of the States Political, Military, Professional and Industrial Progress, Together With the Personal Memoirs of Many of its People. 2vols. Madison, Wis.: Brant and Fuller, 1893. - FHL book 976.1 H2m; film 934817; computer number 254144.

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