Green D. R. Boyd

Green D. R. Boyd established in 1855, the first Democratic paper in Ottumwa, or at least, the first that endured for any considerable length of time, "The Democratic Statesman." Boyd was a tall, red-headed, florid-faced fellow, with an unusual amount of physical vim and vigor, and made the columns of his paper glow with his own ardor. His early education had not been liberal, but he had talents, and wrote editorials and paragraphs that at once attracted the public attention. He severed his connection with the paper in two or three years after its establishment and went to Oregon, the paper passing down the line under other hands and changes in name. After the lapse of fifty years, I remember Boyd distinctly. He was personally entertaining, sprightly in a high degree, and I have always had the curiosity to know what his future career was, but never ascertained. While he was editor of the "Statesman," he prepared and published some interesting sketches of early incidents in the history of Wapello County, which were afterwards republished, and will be found in the old "Annals of Iowa" --one in the October, 1867, number, and another in that of January, 1868, another in that of April, 1868, and the last in that of July the same year.

Source: Recollections and sketches of notable lawyers and public men of early Iowa : belonging to the first and second generations, with anecdotes and incidents illustrative of the times by Edward H. Stiles. Includes index. Micro-reproduction of original published: Des Moines: Homestead , 1916. - FHL Film 934927 Item 1

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