Charles N. Boyd ~ (1)Della G. Carson (2)Agnes Barnett

Charles N. Boyd is a son of W. S. and Margaret (McCafferty) Boyd, and was born at Sarversville, Butler County, Pennsylvania, May 27, 1852. His paternal grandfather, Rev. Abraham Boyd, was a native of Ireland, and came with his father, John Boyd, to Westmoreland county at an early date. Rev. Abraham Boyd was a graduate of Canonsburg College, and for many years was located in Allegheny county. He established the Westminster and Buffalo Presbyterian churches of Butler county, and was one of the well known ministers of pioneer days. His first wife was Eleanor Hillis. Some time after her death, he married Mrs. Agnes Scott. W. S. Boyd, the father of our subject, was born in Allegheny county in 1818. In 1850 he located at Sarversville, Butler county, where he was engaged in general merchandising until 1854. In that year he settled upon a part of the old homestead, in Allegheny county, and spent the remainder of his life in agricultural pursuits. He was an elder in the Presbyterian church for many years, and died July 25, 1865. By his marriage to Margaret McCafferty, daughter of James McCafferty, he was the father of three children, as follows: James S. Boyd; Mary E. Boyd, deceased wife of J. S. Christie, and Charles N. Boyd. The subject of this sketch was reared in Allegheny county, and learned the tinner's trade. In 1874 he formed a partnership with his brother, James S., and established a drug business at Tarentum, removing to Connellsville in 1876, where he remained three years in the same business. He also carried on the drug business in Somerset county. In the spring of 1887 he established his present drug store in Butler, and has since built up one of the leading business houses of the borough. Mr. Boyd was married in 1880, to Della G. Carson, daughter of David Carson, of Connellsville, who died in 1882. His second wife was Agnes Barnett, a daughter of the Rev. J. M. Barnett, of Washington, Pennsylvania, whom he married December 5, 1889. On daughter, Martha Eleanor Boyd, is the fruit of this marriage. Mr. Boyd is a member of the Presbyterian church, and is an elder in the Butler organization. He belongs to the Masonic order, and in politics, is a Republican. He is one of the public-spirited and enterprising business men of the borough.

Source: History of Butler County, Pennsylvania : embracing its physical features, aborigines and explorers, public lands and surveys, pioneers, early settlement and subsequent growth, sketches of boroughs, townships and villages, biographies and portraits of pioneers; Includes index; Micro-reproduction of original published: [S. l.] : R. C. Brown, 1895. - FHL Film 1000547

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