BIO:  James Boyd, York County, PA

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History of York County, Pennsylvania.  John Gibson, Historical Editor.
Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886.
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Part II, Biographical Sketches, Lower Chanceford Township, Pg 121

JAMES BOYD (deceased), son of John Boyd, who emigrated from the north of Ireland 
about 1774, and located in Chester County.  When twenty-eight years old James 
Boyd moved to Wrightsville, and engaged in the lumber business with his brother 
Robert.  He came to Lower Chanceford in 1855, and purchased the John Kilgore 
farm, containing 600 acres, and began farming, which he continued until 1865, 
when he built the “Oakland Valley Mills,” located about one mile from McCall’s 
Ferry.  He was married, in 1844, to Ann C. Schroeder, a native of Germany, who 
immigrated to this country with her parents at the age of twelve, and settled at 
Stoney Run, near York.  They had five children:  Robert, James M., John C., Isaac 
N. and Martin L.  Mr. James Boyd, who died March 17, 1883, was a prominent member 
of the Lutheran Church of Wrightsville, before moving to Lower Chanceford, and 
took an active interest in erecting the church of his denomination in that town.  
He was afterward prominently identified in the erection of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church at Centreville.  Mrs. Boyd resides at the home near Centreville.