Biographical Sketch of James P. Boyes, Johnson County, Missouri
Grover Township

>From "The History of Johnson County, Missouri," 
Kansas City Historical Co. 1881

JAMES P. BOYES,

farmer and coal-miner, P.O. Knobnoster.  The subject of this sketch was
born July 8, 1828, in Scotland.  He here spent his early days in
learning a trade--carpenter and joiner. He came to Kansas in 1864, where
he remained for seven years, during which time he accumulated about
$7,000, but on account of his health returned to Johnson county,
Missouri, locating where he is now, where he owns 100 acres of land, and
sixty acres of it is underlaid with a vein of coal three feet four
inches thick.  He was in married, in 1868, to Mrs. E. Paterson, and from
this union they have two children living, Richard and Robert James.
Lost two, Martha A. and E. James.


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