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

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Samuel F. Boyd, who represents the fourteenth ward in the common council of Allegheny city, Pa; is a native of the second ward of that city, having been born there in 1868.  His parents are Thomas M., Sr and Mary Boyd,  old and highly respected citizens of Allegheny city.  While Samuel was still in his early child- hood, the family removed to Shoustown, where he received his first intellectual training in the Shoustown public schools.  It was while living here that he earned his first money (fifteen cents) by working on the Pittsburg & Lake Erie railroad bridge.  When he was about sixteen years of age his parents changed their residence to the second ward of Allegheny city, and there he finished his education in the public schools of the ward, leaving school at the age of nineteen.  He than went into the bakery of James McClurg to learn the trade, and remained there for four years.  Upon leaving Mr McClurg he accepted a position as assistant shipper in the house of James B. Scott & Co., No. 328 Second Ave., now Follansbee Bros., at Second, Third, Sort and Liberty streets, where he still continues.  Mr Boyd has for many years been a consistent republican and has never refused to give his aid to any honorable movement to advance the interests of his party.  In February, 1903, he was elected to the common council from the fourteenth ward, and is now serving on the committees on public works, water and surveys.  He is a member of the German Lutheran church;  Monument Castle lodge, No. 157, Knights of the Mystic Chain, and Allegheny conclave, No. 212, Independent Order of Heptasophs.  On October 9, 1891,  he was married to Miss Louise Becker, a handsome and accomplished young lady of Reserve township, Allegheny count, Pa., and one daughter, Naomi, has been born to them.  Mrs. Boyd is the daughter of Charles and Louisa (King) Becker, the father being justice of the peace for twenty-four consecutive years in his township, and is also ex-captain of the 9th Pennsylvania reserve corps.  Mr. Boyd is a modest, un- assuming gentleman in his intercourse with his fellow men, but, nevertheless, he is one with the courage to do the right as his judgment leads him to see it.

Source: Memoirs of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania; personal and genealogical. Vol. 1  Imprint: Madison, Wis., Northwestern Historical Association, 1904. 

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