Reece I. Boyd ~ Louisa Cushing

Reece I. Boyd, marble dealer, Harlan, was born in Warren County, Ohio, January 3, 1850. He is a son of James H. Boyd and Eliza (Phillips) Boyd. His father was a native of Franklin County, Pennsylvania, and the mother of Warren County, Ohio. In 1855 the family moved to Iowa and settled in Muscatine County, where Mr. Boyd followed agricultural pursuits. Reece I. was reared on a farm and received his education in the district schools and at the Wilton Baptist College. In 1866 he engaged as clerk in a drug store at Wilton, where he remained five years. After teaching school one year he engaged in the drug business for himself at Eldon, Wapello County where he remained nearly three years. In the fall of 1877 he went to Nebraska, and for a year and a half followed various avocations. He then returned to Iowa, settling at Avoca, and dealt in horses and worked at the marble trade until February 1882 when he came to Harlan and engaged in the marble trade in which he is doing a business of from $6,000 to $10,000 per year. He has the only establishment of the kind in Harlan, and has met with satisfactory success.

Mr. Boyd was married at Avoca, Mary 17, 1883, to Miss Louisa Cushing, a native of New Hampshire, and a daughter of Enoch Cushing, who came to Iowa in the year 1870 and settled in Pottawattamie County. Mrs. Boyd is a member of the Congregational church. Mr. Boyd gives his political support to the Republican party. He is a member of Parian Lodge, No. 321, A. F. & A. M., of Harlan. He is also a member of the I. O. O. F., Eldon Lodge, No. 28. He was made an Odd Fellow in February, 1872.

Source: Biographical history of Shelby and Audubon counties, Iowa : containing portraits of all the presidents of the United States from Washington to Harrison, with accompanying biographies of each; portraits and biographies of the governors of the state; engravings of prominent citizens in Shelby and Audubon counties, with personal histories of many of the early settlers and leading families; a concise history of the counties, and the cities and townships. Includes index. Xerox copy of original book published: Chicago: W. S. Dunbar & Co., 1889. - FHL Film 962181

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