Martin Boyd ~ Lydia Bear

Martin Boyd, farmer, Aledo, oldest living child of Miles Boyd and Catherine (Fisher) Boyd, was born in Madison county, Indiana, February 12, 1834. In 1839 his father emigrated to Mercer county and settled in what is now Eliza township, and four years afterward died in Indiana while there on business. His mother married again to James Turner, and is living on the old homestead. April 6, 1856, Mr. Boyd was married to Miss Lydia Bear, daughter of Martin Bear, one of the original settlers of Eliza township, and the same spring settled on the N. W. 1/4 Sec. 16, Duncan township, and lived there twenty years. In 1876 he moved to Aledo. He was generally and quite extensively engaged while on his farm in feeding cattle. For a number of years he was supervisor and assessor of Eliza, and besides held other offices in his township. In 1880 he was elected by the democrats to the legislature, where he attended the regular session of 1880-81, and the recent special session convened the present year (1882) by Gov. Cullom. He has served on the committees on county and township organization, library, and miscellanies. Mr. Boyd has never been identified with any other than the democratic party. He was actively associated with his friends in the farmers' movement from 1873 to 1875, was master of a grange, and delegate there from to the state grange. Mr. and Mrs. Boyd have three children: Catharine Boyd, Lenore Boyd and Bertha Boyd. Catharine is the wife of Minor Miller.

Source: History of Mercer County, together with biographical matter, statistics, etc.: gathered from matter furnished by the Mercer County Historical Society, interviews with old settlers, county, township and other records, and extracts from files of papers, pamphlets, and such other sources as have been available, containing also a short history of Henderson County; Includes index; published: Chicago: H. H. Hill, 1882. - FHL Film 924492 Item 1

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