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Author: Arthur P. Rose (1908)

  M. S. BOYLE, of Lismore township, is the oldest settler now living in that

precinct. He owns and farms the east half of section 27. Mr. Boyle is the son of

the late Michael and Bridget (Finnegan) Boyle, natives of Ireland. The father

died Oct. 1, 1891, aged 76 years. The mother died March 6, 1899, aged 75 years.



  Our subject was born in Green Lake county, Wis., May 17, 1853. He was raised

on his father's farm and made his home there till the spring of 1874. Then,

having reached his majority, he left home. After making a trip down the

Wisconsin and Mississippi rivers to Burlington, Iowa, and back up the St. Croix

river, he engaged in timbering.



  In the month of July, 1876, he came to Nobles county, determined to make his

home in the new country of southwestern Minnesota. A brother had been in the

neighborhood so early as 1865 while in the service on an expedition after

Indians, and had always declared that southwestern Minnesota was destined to

become a great country and that some day he would make his home there. He

accompanied his brother, M. S. Boyle, to Nobles county, in 1876. Captain Aiken

Miner located our subject, who on the 26th of July filed a homestead claim to

the northeast quarter of section 26, Lismore township. Although claims had been

taken in the township prior to this time, there was not an actual settler in the

township at the time Mr. Boyle erected his "shack" and became a resident. He

broke up a small tract of land the first season and began farming.



  From the date of filing on the claim until 1894 Mr. Boyle divided his time

between his Nobles county farm and the timber camps on the St. Croix river. He

spent his summers farming and winters working in the woods. He bought his

present 320 acre farm in 1889, and in 1891 made his improvements and moved on.

That has been his home ever since, with the exception of five or six years spent

in Adrian, where he engaged in the stock business. Mr. Boyle engages extensively

in the stock business and raises thoroughbred Hereford cattle and Oxford Down
sheep.



  Mr. Boyle was married at Adrian May 15, 1879, to Mary O'Day, a native of Fond

du Lac, Wis., and a daughter of Michael and Mary O'Day, both deceased. To them

have been born the following children: May C., born April 15, 1880; Helen Mary,

born March 29, 1882; Isabel, of Black Duck, Minn., born March, 1886; Edward D.,

born Feb. 12, 1889; Ethel, born May 20, 1893; Margaret, born Aug. 2, 1896. In

the early days Mr. Boyle served five or six years as a member of the Lismore

township board.



  The brother of M. S. Boyle referred to is Dennis Boyle, well known to all the

old settlers. While he never made his home in Nobles county, he had large land

interests, made big improvements, and was interested in stock raising. At one

time he owned 1,500 acres of land and had it all in growing grain. M. S. Boyle

also engaged extensively in farming. He opened up for crops over 1,000 acres, a

part of which he has since sold. The Boyles were among the most extensive

farmers and opened, more land than any other two men in northwestern Nobles
county.



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AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF NOBLES COUNTY

MINNESOTA

BY

ARTHUR P. ROSE



NORTHERN HISTORY PUBLISHING COMPANY 

WORTHINGTON, MINNESOTA 

PUBLISHERS

1908

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