CHIEF:  Alastair Ivor Gilbert Boyd 7th Baron Kilmarnock

Richard G. and Jerri Lynn Boyd

568 W. Friedrich Street

Rogers City, Mich. 49779

Dr. Frank D. Boyd ~ Mattie E. Callahan

Cherokee County, Texas

Dr. Frank D. Boyd, oculist for the State and Masonic Orphans' and Widows' Home at Fort Worth and lecturer on hygiene and physical diagnosis in the medical department of the Fort Worth University, while in his private practice he is an eye, ear, nose and throat specialist at Fort Worth, was born in Rusk, Cherokee county, Texas, his parents being John A. and Amy (Harrison) Boyd. The father is now living in a country home three and a half miles from Fort Worth. He was born in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and came to Texas in 1852, locating in Cherokee county, since which time he has followed mercantile pursuits, becoming a substantial merchant. It was in that county that he was married to Miss Amy Harrison, who was born in Selma, Alabama, and came to Texas in 1854.

Dr. Boyd was reared upon the home farm in Cherokee county, near Rusk, and completed a high school course at that place by graduation, after which he became a student in the State Agricultural and Mechanical College. He began his professional studies rather early in life, his first preceptor being Dr. Gracey, a prominent physician of Waxahachie. Subsequently he entered the medical department of the University of Louisville at Louisville, Kentucky, where he was graduated in 1890. He had decided upon becoming a specialist in diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat and, following his graduation at Louisville, he pursued post-graduate work in the above mentioned branches in a post-graduate medical school and hospital of New York City. For the purpose of acquiring still further knowledge, experience and proficiency he then returned to Louisville and became assistant in the office of Dr. Cheatham, a noted specialist of that place. Later he became assistant in the office of Dr. E. Fletcher Ingals of Chicago, from which city he removed to San Antonio, Texas, where he practiced as a specialist for five years. In June, 1896, he removed to San Antonio, Texas, where he has since followed his profession with gratifying success, resulting from an ambitious effort to acquire the best training and preparation possible. His labors have been most efficient, being attended by excellent results in the line of scientific work and in addition to the duties of a large private practice he is now serving as oculist for the State Masonic Orphans' and Widows' Home at Fort Worth and is lecturer on hygiene and physical diagnosis in the medical department of the Fort Worth University.

Dr. Boyd has contributed largely to the literature of ophthalmology and otology and devotes as much of his spare time as possible to preparing articles for the technical journals, usually upon subjects in connection with his specialty. He is an original thinker and investigator and his labors have brought valuable knowledge to the profession. He is a member of the various medical societies of Texas and the American Medical Society, including its specialized branches, while his fraternal relations connect him with the Masonic lodge, chapter and commandery.

Dr. Boyd was married in Louisville to Miss Mattie E. Callahan, and they have a little daughter, Amy Margaret Boyd. They lost their oldest child, a boy, Frank Douglas Boyd, Jr., at the age of five years.

Source: A twentieth century history and biographical record of north and west Texas by B. B. Paddock; Pub;Chicago: Lewis Pub. Co., 1906. FHL Film Vol 2, 823660

Dr Frank Douglas Boyd / Mattie E. Callahan

Rusk, TX to Fort Worth, TX

Frank Douglas Boyd, physician, son of  John A. and Amy E. (Harrison) Boyd,
was born on Christmas Eve, 1867, at Rusk, Texas. He demonstrated an interest in medicine while attending public school in Cherokee County. After completing his undergraduate work at the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas (now Texas A&M University), he left for Kentucky to study medicine at the University of Louisville. He received his degree in 1890 and left for New York, where he did additional study before leaving for San Antonio, Texas. There he established his first medical practice and, on April 21, 1892, married Mattie E. Callahan. The couple had three children, but their two sons did not survive childhood.

In 1897 Boyd moved to Fort Worth and opened an office with Dr. Charles Head. The two men quickly established a reputation as leading eye, ear, nose, and throat specialists. In addition to his medical practice Boyd lectured on hygiene and physical diagnosis at the medical school of Fort Worth University (now Texas Wesleyan University). Later he joined the staff of Baylor Medical College in Dallas as professor of otolaryngology. To keep abreast of his field he did postgraduate work in Vienna, Berlin, and London. He also found time to volunteer his services as an oculist for the State Masonic Orphans Home in Fort Worth.

Boyd was a member of the American Medical Association and the American
Academy of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology; he was a fellow of the American College of Surgeons. He chaired the Board of Council of the State Medical Association and in 1914 was president of the Texas State Medical Association (see Texas medical association). During the last two decades of his medical practice he was the senior member of Boyd and Boyne Hospital in Fort Worth. In addition, he was a Scottish Rite Mason and Baptist deacon. He continued to practice medicine until he died, after a brief illness, on January 4, 1929. He was buried in Fort Worth.

BIBLIOGRAPHY: Fort Worth Star-Telegram, January 5, 1929. Frank W. Johnson, A History of Texas and Texans (5 vols., ed. E.C. Barker and E. W. Winkler [Chicago and New York: American Historical Society, 1914; rpt. 1916]). Memorial and Genealogical Record of Southwest Texas (Chicago: Goodspeed, 1894; rpt., Easley, South Carolina.

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