Lake County IN Archives Biographies.....Boyd, Eli M. 1837 - 
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Author: T. H. Ball (1904)

ELI M. BOYD.

    Eli M. Boyd, prominent farmer of Ross township, is one of the very oldest
living settlers of Lake county, where he and his well known twin brother located
over fifty-five years ago, when the country was largely wild and much of it
still belonging to the government. Their subsequent career is a part of the
agricultural history of the county, for in time they became and still are ranked
among the largest farmers of the county. Furthermore, they are men of eminent
public spirit, interested in the welfare of the county, and their efforts and
influence have been felt in diverse ways for the benefit and unbuilding of
industrial and social institutions.

    Mr. E. M. Boyd was born in Lucus county, Ohio, September 10, 1837, so that
he is now near the limit of threescore and ten. His father, Alexander Boyd, a
native of Pennsylvania, died when Eli was seven years old, and little is known
of his history. He married Elizabeth Kelley, a native of Westmoreland county,
Pennsylvania, and she lived to be seventy-six years old and was married a second
time. They had three children, a daughter and the twin sons, Eli M. and Levi,
who are the principal characters with whom this sketch is concerned.

    Mr. Boyd and his brother made their own way from an early age, although they
lived with their mother and step-father for some time. They came out to Michigan
and thence settled in Lake county, Indiana, in 1848, working on their
step-father's farm about nine months of the year and attending school for three
months. They were industrious and frugal and enterprising in their habits and
methods of management, and were not long in getting started in the world.
Farming has always been the work in which they have found the best field for
their endeavor, and they are now the owners of six hundred acres of land in Ross
and Hobart townships, containing some of as good soil as is to be found in the
county. Mr. E. M. Boyd is a member of the advisory board.

    Mr. E. M. Boyd was married, January 6, 1874, to Miss Agnes Hyde, and five
children were born to them: George, who is married and lives on one of his
father's farms: Alexander, single; Warren, who is married and follows farming;
Charles, at home; Alice, aged fifteen, at home. Warren was a student at
Valparaiso normal. Alice is in the eighth grade in the public school and has
taken musical instructions. Mrs. Boyd was born on Wabash avenue, Chicago,
September 8, 1850, a daughter of Michael and Mary (McIntoller) Hyde. Her parents
are dead. There are six sisters living at present, of her family. She was
educated in the common schools.

    The Boyd brothers are ardent supporters of the Republican party, and have
always advocated strongly the principles of the platform. The first presidential
vote they cast was for Lincoln, and they cast their votes for Grant, Garfield,
Blaine and McKinley. Mr. Eli Boyd has yet in his possession a vest made in the
year 1856, the year that General Fremont was the first nominee of the Republican
party. The Boyd brothers and wives are attendants of the Methodist Episcopal
church, and give to the benevolences, and all needy are well remembered.

    Mr. and Mrs. Boyd are among the leading people of Ross township, and we are
pleased to present this sketch.


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ENCYCLOPEDIA
OF
Genealogy and Biography
OF
LAKE COUNTY, INDIANA,
WITH A COMPENDIUM OF HISTORY 
1834—1904

A Record of the Achievements of Its People in the Making of a Commonwealth and
the Founding of a Nation.

REV. T. H. BALL
OF CROWN POINT, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
ILLUSTRATED
CHICAGO   NEW YORK
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1904


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