Yolo County CA Archives Biographies.....Joyce, Halcyon 
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Author: Tom Gregory (1913)

MRS. HALCYON JOYCE

    One of the comparatively few women as yet holding public office in
California, Mrs. Halcyon (Williams) Joyce has had a career which in some of its
aspects is of more than usual interest. Halcyon Williams was born near Carthage,
Ill., a daughter Rolla T. and Mollie (Irwin) Williams., Her father was born near
Urbana, Champaign county, Ohio, and in 1862, enlisted in the Twenty-sixth
Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, with which organization he did gallant
service as a soldier until the close of the Civil war. Returning to his home, he
soon moved to Illinois, and settling near Carthage, engaged in farming. There he
remained till in 1877, when, with his family, he came to California and located
in Yolo county, where he resumed farming and was thus employed until, retiring
from active life, he made his home in Woodland. His wife was a native of
Lexington, Ky., and a member of the family of Breckinridge long prominent in our
national history. Halcyon Joyce is their only child.

    Mrs. Joyce was educated in the schools of Woodland and at the Woodland
Business College. Soon after her graduation from the institution just named she
was appointed official reporter of the Superior court of Yolo county. From 1897
until the present time she has held that office by repeated appointment except
during eighteen months. She has won much praise from high sources for the
accuracy with which her work has been done as well as for her devotion to the
duties of an exacting office. Among stenographers she is widely and favorably
known because of her prominence in the state and also for her activity in the
California Short Hand Reporters' Association, of which she has long been a member.

    At Buffalo, N. Y., July 29, 1905, Miss Williams married William Allen Joyce,
M.D., a native of New York city and a graduate of the Baltimore Medical College,
who has been in the practice of medicine and surgery in Woodland since 1903 and
has attained much prominence in his profession in Yolo and nearby counties.


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HISTORY OF YOLO COUNTY CALIFORNIA
WITH
Biographical Sketches
OF
The Leading Men and Women of the County Who Have Been Identified With Its Growth
and Development From the Early Days to the Present

HISTORY BY
TOM GREGORY
AND OTHER WELL KNOWN WRITERS
ILLUSTRATED COMPLETE IN ONE VOLUME

HISTORIC RECORD COMPANY
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA [1913]


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