Bios: Joseph Cowan Boyd, 1799 -: Chester County, PA

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Article File (Boyd)
Chester County Historical Society Library
225 North High Street
West Chester, PA 19380

>From :History of Chester & Delaware Co. Vol. I Page 249 (similar to
newspaper column glued to stiff paper, printed not typed)

MARIANA BOYD.  Joseph Cowan Boyd was born at what is known as the Black
Horse Hotel, on the Philadelphia and Lancaster turnpike, Chester county,
Pennsylvania, June 6, 1799.  His father, Wallace Boyd, born in Chester
county, Pennsylvania, was a farmer and afterward a hotel keeper.  His
father, Thomas Boyd, was one of the early settlers of Chester county,
and a staff officer in the Revolutionary was.  His great-grandfather,
the Rev. Adam Boyd, emigrated from Ireland, and was the first settled
pastor of the Octoraro Presbyterian church in the vicinity of
Parkersburg.  Adam Boyd was looked upon as being foremost in church
matters.

   Joseph Cowan Boyd was one of the men who inherited some of the old Penn
patent land, and he was a successful farmer in the last century.  He was
an active man in educational matters, filling the office of school
director, and his political sympathies were with the Republican party.
He married Mary D. R. McCorkle, daughter of William and Catherine
(Snowden) McCorkle, who before her marriage successfully taught at a
private school called Mantua.  This school was instituted by the Rev.
James Latta, the fourth pastor of Upper Octorara church.  William
McCorkle was the editor of the ³Freemanıs Journal,² published in
Philadelphia during the time of Napoleon.  His first editorial work was
in Greensburg, Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, and he continued in
this business during his life.

        To Joseph Cowan Boyd and Mary D. R. (McCorkle) Boyd were born the
following children:  1. Catherine S., unmarried; 2. William Wallace, deceased; 
3.  Mariana; 4. Joseph C. a traveling salesman; 5.  James S., a farmer, 
married Susan Dean, to whom were born three children, of whom
two are deceased.  The survivor, Robert S., married Nellie Philips, to
whom were born  two children--James Harold, deceased, and Robert Wayne.

        Mariana Boyd resides with her sister, Catherine, and her brother
Joseph, in Parkersburg, Pennsylvania.  They are connected with the
Octorara Presbyterian Church.

On the same sheet are two label sized cards with 1.  Jennie C. Boyd and
second, James Boyd in two different handwritings.