Herkimer County NyArchives Biographies.....Boyce, Horace M. June 6, 1840 - 
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Author: Hardin & Willard

Boyer, Horace M., Little Falls, was born in Little Falls, June 6, 1840.  His 
great-grandfather was one of the original settlers (Mohawk Dutch) of the 
valley and participated in the war of the Revolution.  Joseph Boyer, a son of 
this Revolutionary soldier, and grandfather of Horace M., participated in the 
Indian wars of 1812.  Horace M. Boyer was engaged with his father, Joseph 
Boyer, jr., in contracting, and upon the death of the senior Boyer, succeeded 
to the business, which he has successfully carried on before and since the 
late war.  At the out-break of the war he enlisted in the Seventh Independent 
Battery of Newburgh, N.Y., and participated in many of the most important 
battles and engagements during that period.  Among these were Williamsburgh, 
Fair Oaks, Chicamauga, Seven Days' Fight, Hatcher's Run, Siege of Petersburgh, 
Fort Darling, Evacuation of Richmond, etc.  He served as an orderly sergeant 
during the four years, and was mustered out at the close of the war.  Mr. 
Boyer married Margaret Varsen, of Fairfield.  They have no children.  In 
contracting, Mr. Boyer has erected the larger number of important structures, 
bridges, etc., in the vicinity, among which we mention the residences of 
Messrs. Burrell, Richmond, Houghton, Lintner, Bellinger, Metropolitan Hotel, 
Congress Block, etc.; also the Skinner Opera House and numerous other 
prominent buildings.  He built the stone wall opposite the elevator, which is 
fifty-three feet high, five hundred feet long, twenty-three feet thick at 
bottom, four feet at top, etc.  Mr. Boyer is a staunch Democrat, but don't 
want an office.


Additional Comments:
source:
History of Herkimer County, New York : illustrated with portraits of many of 
its citizens
edited by George A. Hardin ; assisted by Frank H. Willard
Syracuse, New York : D. Mason, 1893
550 p., 276 p. : ill., maps, ports.


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