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Robert Dempsey Boyd ~ Mary Arrell

Chicago, Cook County, Illinois


BOYD, ROBERT DEMPSEY, physician, was born April 28,1847, in Uniontown, Penn., of JOSEPH and ELVIRA (MCMILLAIN) BOYD. The family moved to La Salle County, Ill., in 1854, where the elder Boyd still resides, and where Mrs. Boyd died in 1878. Having received an academic education, R. D. Boyd removed to Chicago in 1869, where he commenced business as a druggist. In 1875 he began to study medicine in Rush Medical College, where he graduated in the class of 1878. He then sold out his store and entered on the active practice of his profession. After nearly four years' resilience in Albany, Ill., Dr. Boyd returned to Chicago in 1881, and located in Hyde Park, where he still remains, and where he has succeeded in building up a lucrative practice. In 1873 Dr. Boyd was married to MARY ARRELL, of Monongahela City. who died in 1880, leaving one child, RALPH BOYD, born in 1875. Dr. Boyd is a member of the Presbyterian Chucrh.

Source: page 532, Andreas, A. T. History of Cook County, Illinois: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Chicago, IL: A. T. Andreas,1884


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