Biographical Sketch of Robert I. Boyd, St. Joseph, Buchanan County, MO

>From "History of Buchanan County, Missouri, Published 1881, St. Joseph
Steam Printing Company, Printers, Binders, Etc., St. Joseph, Missouri.
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Robert I. Boyd was born in Halifax County, Virginia, in 1808, and 
came to this county in 1837, and settled five miles southeast of this
city.  The indians were their neighbors with but a few white families.
Mr. Boyd started the first dry goods store in the county.  He remained
in trade until 1844, when he came to Blacksnake Hills, St. Joseph, and
started a store in the fall under the firm name of Boyd & Moss.  They
continued in trade until 1857, and sold out on account of his poor
health.  He died in 1865.  He married Kittie Moss in Boone County, MO,
in June, 1828.  They had one daughter, Isabella, who died when twelve
years old.  In 1867, Mrs. Boyd was married to Dr. John H. Edwards, of
Jefferson City, Missouri, after which he moved to this city where he
lived for nine years.  He died in 1876.  Josiah B. Moss, her nephew,
and partner with Dougherty & Ray in the lumber business, and Ernst
Edwards, her step son, now live with Mrs. Edwards.

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