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CHIEF: Dr Robin Boyd, MA (Oxon); MB BS; LRCP, MRCS; DCH; AFOM, 8th Baron Kilmarnock |
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CHIEF: Dr Robin Boyd, MA (Oxon); MB BS; LRCP, MRCS; DCH; AFOM, 8th Baron Kilmarnock |
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Dr. John Boyd ~ Maria A. Stevens Uniontown, Fayette County, Pennsylvania Dr. John Boyd is of a family that has produced a number of eminent, professional men, as well as men of note, gentlemen and scholars. His grand- father, William Boyd, came from Kilmarnock, Scotland, and brought a grant for several hundred acres of land covering the present site of the city of Halifax. This grant bore the seal of James VI, King of England; but his sympathy for the American colonists during the War of the Revolution caused the forfeiture of his lands to the crown. His father, Rev. Eben L. Boyd, was a noted preacher in South Berwick for many years. His eldest son, Dr. Eben L. Boyd, was a graduate of Cambridge, Massachusetts, and had an extended reputation through- out the Eastern states as an able physician and surgeon, having performed some very wonderful surgical operations in his day. He died at Wilkesbarre, Pennsylvania. Dr John Boyd was a man of considerable reputation, not only as physician and surgeon, but as a preacher of the word of God. He was born in South Berwick, Maine, July 11, 1817, and was a son of Rev. Eben L. Boyd and Sarah Frazier Boyd. He was married to Maria A. Stevens, daughter of Joseph Stevens of Boston. For eighteen years (?) and was at the time of his death Inspector at the Custom House in Boston. His wife, Clarissa Cushing, was a lineal descendant of Caleb Cushing, the latter coming over in the Mayflower and whose portrait can be seen at the Independence Hall Museum in Philadelphia. Dr John Boyd was educated in the school of South Berwick, and afterwards read medicine with Dr Charles Trafton of the same place. In 1835 Dr Boyd had a call to the ministry at Haverhill, Massachusetts, and subsequently preached at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Hampton and Kennebunk, Maine. He was a strong advocate of temperance and delivered lectures through Maine in the interest of her first prohibition laws. In 1848 on account of failing health, he accepted an agency for the American and Foreign Bible Society, and visited and preached at many of the principal Baptist churches throughout the state. He was the pastor at Wilkesbarre for about five years, and later for about the same length of time pastor of the Baptist church at Washington, Penna. He came to Union- town in 1864 and devoted himself to the practice of medicine, and built up a lucrative practice. He continued to preach at Uniontown up to the time of his death. He was endowed by nature with a strong mind, was a hard student, great reader, well versed in literature and a good thinker. For fifty six years he was a devout Christian and his faith in the promises of God was firm and secure, and died in full trust and hope in them. He was full of love and charity for his fellow men. In his library are some of the oldest books extant: a priestly Bible published in 1634; Oyer and Terminer of the city of London published in 1730; Court of the Gentiles published in 1674; and some very valuable medical works. He kept a handbook of his practice of medicine, and registered every dose of medicine that he ever gave. He also kept a register of all the patients he ever treated: giving a full history of each case in all its different stages. The pension officials at Washington would often come to Dr. Boyd for dates and facts in the history of applications for pensions. He was made a life member of the American Baptist Missionary Union, Boston, September 30,1846. He had in his possession the family coat of arms which is several hundred years old. The children of Dr. Boyd are five in number: John Boyd, who died soon after the war at the age of twenty two years; Eben L. Boyd, died in infancy; Sarah F. Boyd, died November 4,1882, at the age of twenty seven; Mrs. Maria F. Gribble, and Mrs. Clara F. Johnson are the living children, and both reside with their mother at Uniontown. Dr Boyd spent the last moments of his life in helping the sick: having gone out at 4:30 AM to see a patient, returning home at 9:30 AM and with a severe attack of hemorrhage, passed away February 27, 1889, "full of years and full of honors." His remains rest with those of other members of the family at Newburyport, Massachusetts. Source: p146,
Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Fayette County, NOTE: Use this data as a finding tool, just as you would any other secondary source. When you find the name of an ancestor listed, confirm the facts in original sources.
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