San Benito-Sacramento-Butte County CA Archives Biographies.....Boyd, Alexander P. 1825 - 
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Author: Luther A. Ingersoll, Editor (1893)

ALEXANDER P. BOYD was born in Orange county, New York, September 30, 1825, son
of Alexander Boyd. In his father's family were five sons and two daughters, all
of whom are still living except two sons The parents were also natives of Orange
county, and each lived to the advanced age of eighty-seven years.

  After attaining his majority, the subject of our sketch went to New York city
and was there employed as clerk in a drug store for six years. Early in 1852 he
started from New York for California, by way of Cape Horn, and arrived at San
Francisco on the 1st of September of that year. From San Francisco he went to
Sacramento, where for two years he clerked in a hardware store. He then sought
the mines and was engaged in mining two years. We next find him at Oroville,
where he conducted a hardware business twelve years. At the end of that time he
disposed of his interests there and returned to his old home in New York. On
this return trip he had the pleasure of being one of the first passengers to go
East from this coast by rail. After a sojourn of about six months amid the
scenes of his early life, he returned to California, coming direct to Hollister,
then Monterey county. This was in 1869. He then began dealing in lumber, in
which he is still extensively engaged, and now controls the lumber business in
this part of the country.

  Mr. Boyd was married, in 1876, to Miss Mattie Chapman, and has one daughter,
Grace, aged fourteen years. As a business man and citizen, Mr. Boyd stands high
in the community where he has so long resided.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

Memorial and Biographical History of the Coast Counties of Central California.

Illustrated.

Containing a History of this Important Section of the Pacific Coast from the
Earliest Period of its Discovery to the Present Time, together with Glimpses of
its Auspicious Future; Illustrations and Full-Page Portraits of some of its
Eminent Men, and Biographical Mention of many of its Pioneers, and Prominent
Citizens of To-day.



HENRY D. BARROWS,
Editor of the Historical Department.

LUTHER A. INGERSOLL,
Editor of the Biographical Department.

"A people that take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will
never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote
descendants."-Macaulay.


CHICAGO: THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY.
1893.


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