CHIEF:  Dr Robin Boyd, MA (Oxon); MB BS; LRCP, MRCS; DCH; AFOM, 8th Baron Kilmarnock

Richard G. Boyd

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Hugh Boyd ~ Ida Patterson

Ohio to  Mount Vernon, Iowa

BOYD, Hugh, teacher and clergyman of Cornell college, Mount Vernon, Iowa, was born August 6, 1835, in Keene, Coshocton county, Ohio. His father was DANIEL BOYD, who was born near Ardara, parish of Inniskeel, County Donegal, Ireland, and his mother was JANE ELLIOTT, of Glenconway, parish of Killibegs, County Donegal, Ireland. They came to this country in 1819 to escape the infamous system of land tenure in their native land. DANIEL BOYD's father and mother were ROBERT BOYD and JANE RAMSEY, and his wife was a daughter of John ELLIOTT and Frances BLAINE. The preceding generation were ALBERT BOYD, Mr. Ramsey and Kate Karrigan, John Elliott and Annie Lee, Moses Blaine and Jennie McKee. When Daniel Boyd first came to America he was a teacher, and afterwards engaged in weaving fine linen and coverlets, and was a retail merchant in Jefferson and Coshocton counties, Ohio. In 1839 he removed to Athens county, Ohio, and opened up a farm out of the native forest, where, for the remainder of his life, he expended his energies to good purpose. He was an active worker in all religious, political, humanitarian and educational movements of his time. He brought up a large family of children, and all of them now living are well established in life. The educational advantages were not many, but the training of the future teacher and preacher was not neglected. There were the weekly papers, the daily reading from the new testament, the earnest and beautiful prayers of the boy's father and mother, and the frequent visits of the pioneer preacher. On these occasions every subject of human interest was discussed between him and the boy's father. The boy was silent and listened. There was a little district school of irregular attendance of two or three months each year, and finally a seminary was opened in a little village five miles away. Here the boy was prepared for college in a surprisingly short time. Often he had to walk the entire distance to the seminary, but he always got there and made the best use of his time. The farm had made him familiar with hard work and he was not afraid of it. He entered the Ohio university and was graduated with the honor of valedictorian in 1859. Some years later he was further honored with the
degree of doctor of divinity.

Professor BOYD, after several years of service as a teacher in the public schools of Ohio, and, after having labored several other years as a clergyman in the Methodist Episcopal church, was, in 1871, transferred from the Ohio annual conference to the Upper Iowa annual conference, and appointed professor of Latin in Cornell college. This position he now holds and has adorned with many years of earnest and effective service. He follows no stereotyped method, but has, in great part, made the Latin a living tongue rather than a dead language. His work has received substantial endorsement from Harvard university, from the fact that several students after they had received their early training at Cornell entered Harvard for more advanced work, and the number of courses required of them was lessened as compared with the number of courses required of students coming from other colleges of similar grade. While devoting himself mainly to his duties as teacher, Professor Boyd has been in demand both at home and abroad for addresses, lectures and sermons, in which he has demonstrated himself to be a speaker of commanding force and eloquence. He is often called upon in his own town and no one is received with more kindly interest and generous attention.
Aside from his regular duties he is deeply interested in the study of sociology. Besides his membership in other organizations he is a member of the Beta Theta Phi,and belongs to the order of Knights of Pythias, and is a Knight Templar in the Masonic fraternity.

Professor BOYD was married August 20, 1860, to IDA PATTERSON, daughter
of James Patterson and Martha Henry Patterson, of Amesville, Ohio. Two
children were born to them: LUELLA, born October 25, 1863, and ROBERT
ALLYN, born July 17, 1866. Mrs Boyd died October 21, 1867. Professor Boyd was married the second time, August 20, 1874, to MARY ELLEN MOODY,
daughter of Gen. Granville Moody and Lucretia Elizabeth Harris Moody, of Ohio. To them were born four children: Granville Moody, born June 12, 1877, died November 3, 1879; Clifford Moody, born October 21, 1879; Lucy Moody, born September 12, 1881; and Elizabeth Moody, born April 17, 1887, and who died April 20, 1887.

 Source: page 384;  Gue, B.F. Biographies and Portraits of the Progressive Men of Iowa. Des Moines: Conaway & Shaw Publishers, 1899.

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