TUSCARAWAS COUNTY OHIO - BIO: BOYD, John (published 1882) 
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1882 HISTORY OF LA GRANGE COUNTY INDIANA
F.A. Battey & Co., 1882

        JOHN BOYD, son of James and Catherine (Engle) Boyd, was born in
Tuscarawas County, Ohio, June 24, 1838. His parents were natives of
Somerset County, Penn. The subject from the time he was twenty, worked on a
salary until in August, 1862, when he enlisted in Company B, Eighty-eighth
Indiana Volunteer Infantry. He was in the battle of Perryville, Ky., and
served with his regiment until discharged for disability. After his
marriage, March 2, 1865, at Albion, he farmed two years in Noble County,
then came to where he is now living, in this township. He farmed two years,
then worked at carpentering until 1875, when he took a contract of
improving 700 acres of land in the northeast part of the township,
returning to his farm in the spring of 1880. Mr. Boyd is one of the
inventors of a patent buggy-top adjuster, and also invented a patent hay
rack. Mr. and Mrs. Boyd are members of the German Baptist Church, and
parents of seven children, viz., Estella, Alma, Dayton, Canton, Ann E.,
Clarence and Bessie E. Mrs. Amanda Boyd is the daughter of Michael and Mary
(Colt) Landis, natives of Ohio, and parents of three children. She was born
in Eden Township, this county, on the 15th of September, 1846.




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