Miss S. L. Boyd

Miss S. L. Boyd, principal of the Meadville Commercial College, bears the distinction of being a native of Crawford count, her ancestors having settled in Mosiertown at an early day. She is a daughter of Dr. Hiram and Sophia Boyd. The former practiced medicine at Mosiertown from 1817 to 1857, and was a well known practitioner throughout the county.

Miss Boyd was educated at the Edinboro State Normal School, graduating with the class of 1868. Soon afterward she began the work of teaching in the public school at Saegerstown, and a year later was elected principal of the Meadville South Ward school, a position she held without interruption for eighteen years. Impaired health made a change necessary, and after a brief period spent in recuperation she, in 1889, stated a school of shorthand in one small room. The success attained in practical teaching created a demand for making it a commercial school. In December, 1895, the school formerly known as the Meadville School of Business Practice was incorporated as the Meadville Commercial College, placing the institution on a firm foundation with widely known, progressive and successful business and professional men identified with it and pledged to its interest and advancement. The principal takes pride in making the college distinctively a first-class business school, and seeks to merit the requirements of its numerous patrons in fitting young men and women for business life.

Source: Our country and its people: a historical and memorial record of Crawford County, Pennsylvania by Samuel P. Bates; Pub. [Boston]: W. A. Fergusson, 1899. - FHL Film 1000550

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