Tuscola-Monroe-Lapeer County MI Archives Biographies.....Boyl, George P. 1819 - 
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Author: Chapman Bros. (1892)

GEORGE P. BOYL. Among the best-known citizens of Koylton Township, Tuscola
County, we bring before our readers the name of Mr. Boyl, who was born in 1819
at New Haven, Conn. He is a son of John and Lucretia Boyl, the father being a
native of Charleston, S. C., where he was born in 1787. His early life was spent
at home with his parents, where his father was a tobacco dealer.

  John Boyl was one of the first to take up arms in defense of his country
during the conflict of 1812, and he served until its close under Gen. Winfield
Scott. He was wounded in the shoulder in the battle of Lundy's Lane, and forty
years afterward the ball was extracted from his body. At the age of twenty-six
he was united in marriage with Lucretia Draper, daughter of William and Lyda
Draper, of Connecticut.

  To these parents were born six children, Nancy (deceased), Mary E., George P.,
Lyda A. (deceased), William and John Z. After being engaged in the salt business
in New York for a few years, the father of our subject moved to Ohio in 1852,
and thence came to Monroe County, Mich., and afterward to Macomb County, where
he died. In the latter part of his life he was a farmer.

  At the age of twenty-two years George P. Boyl entered upon the milling
business in Monroe County, and also learned the carpenter's trade and followed
it for many years, taking railroad contracts for building bridges, etc. In 1862
he located in Lapeer County, and in 1870 came to his present home. In 1858 he
married Mary Linck, a daughter of John and Margaret Linck, and to them have been
born thirteen children, and these parents have the happiness of seeing all this
large family still about them. They are by name: John and Allois (twins), Mary,
Louisa, George, Agnes, William, Charles, Frank, Andrew, Leo, Winfield and
Maggie. In political matters Mr. Boyl is a member of the Democratic party, and
is a member of both the Farmers' Alliance and the Patrons of Industry, as he
feels a great interest in all matters pertaining to the prosperity of the farmers.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

Portrait and Biographical Record of Genesee, Lapeer and Tuscola Counties,
Michigan, Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative
Citizens, Together with Biographies of all the Governors of the State, and of
the Presidents of the United States

Chicago:
Chapman Bros.
1892


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