Umatilla County OR Archives Biographies.....Boyd, Hon. Edward D. February 14, 1843 - 
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Author: Colonel William Parsons

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HON. EDWARD D. BOYD
	Justly to outline a life of activity in literary, military, 
journalistic and commercial pursuits, as has been that of the gentleman above 
named, is no small task.  It is a pleasure to note that in each of these lines 
he has acquired distinction, which bespeaks a mind of great strength and 
culture, fertile in resources, and wielded by an energetic spirit of a high 
order.  His father, James M. Boyd, was a leading and distinguished citizen of 
Lynchburg, Virginia, and a man of high mental attainments.  He died in his 
native state in 1855.  His mother, Mrs. Annie M. (Tatum) Boyd, is also dead.  
Our subject was born on February 14, 1843, in Lynchburg, Virginia.  That city 
is the place of his childhood and education.  At the early age of eighteen he 
was graduated from the Lynchburg College with honors.  H immediately took up 
the cause of his native state, and for about four years he faithfully served 
in the fields of battle in the Confederate army.  After the close of the war 
he went to Richmond and entered the commercial world, where he continued until 
he removed to Somerville, Tennessee, and accepted a position as principal of 
the Somerville Academy for young men.  In 1867 he went to Arkansas and 
established the Phillips Academy, of which he was principal for six years.  In 
1873 he removed to Little Rock, in that state, and took up journalism and 
published the Arkansas Grange, being also state lecturer of the Patrons of 
Husbandry.  He soon made himself felt in the political arena of that state, 
and in 1878 he was elected to the state senate, where he served for four 
years.  While state senator he was chairman of the senate committee of 
investigation which took charge of the auditor’s and treasurer’s books and 
found both of these officers defaulters in large sums.  It was in 1873 that 
Baxter and Brooks were contending for the governorship of the state, which 
contention resulted in what is known as the Brooks-Baxter war, the outcome of 
it all being that Baxter was confirmed governor of the state and our subject 
was on officer under him.  After this he removed to Fort Worth, Texas, and 
took up the brokerage business.  Here the same marked success that had been 
his in other lines now smiled upon him in the financial world and he soon came 
to the front rank.  Continuing here for three years, he then sought other and 
larger fields.  Chicago was the place for the Colonel’s next triumphs, and 
there he remained for three years more and then turned to the west, coming to 
Pendleton in 1888.  Here he commenced the brokerage business, and has 
continued in it until the present writing.  F. B. Cloptor was his partner 
until 1898, and since that time he has been alone.  His business is the 
largest of its kind in the county and is carried on with skill and energy.  He 
is a large stockholder and vice-president and trustee of the Pendleton 
Scouring and Woolen Mills.  He is a stockholder and trustee of the Hotel 
Pendleton and also a member of the Commercial Club, of which he was president 
for three years.  Colonel Boyd has always taken an active and prominent part 
in the affairs of the county.  Three times he was chairman of the Democratic 
county convention.  Fraternally he is highly connected, being a member of the 
A. F. & A. M., the B. P. O. E. and the Pioneers of the Pacific, and for three 
years he was president of the Pendleton Commercial Association.  


Additional Comments:
An Illustrated History of Umatilla County by Colonel William Parsons and of 
Morrow County by W. S. Shiach with a brief outline of the early history of the 
State of Oregon.  W. H. Lever, Publisher  1902.


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