From "The History of North Washington" Published 1904

Transcribed by: Nancy Grubb (nancyg@theofficenet.com)
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WILLIAM BOYD
	William Boyd. It is very interesting to note in the case of such men 
as Mr. Boyd,the labors performed and the trying questions met the Colville 
for the ingress of civilization. As an instance of what is required of the 
pioneer farmer,when Mr.Boyd first came here,he threshed seven hundred bushels
of grain with a flial. Such marked labor as that indicates beyond doubt the 
energy and stamina of the man of whom we speak. But such was only one of 
many trying things to be accomplished, and suffice it to say that in 
everything which presented itself to be done or solved, Mr.Boyd never failed 
to find a way. Then again we notice that the pioneers who stand so badly in 
need of the various appliances for farming are obliged to pay a double price 
for everything,and Mr.Boyd well remembers that the first farm wagon cost 
him about one hundred and fifty dollars. Provisions were also very high.
Sugar cost him twenty-five cents a pound,and other things in proportion.
All these things but brought forth in our subject the corresponding increase
of energy to overcome and accomplished as he had planned. Dame Fortune could
not resist such wooing as that and the result is as it should be,that Mr.Boyd
is to-day,one of the leading and prosperous men of northern Washington. 
Reverting more particularly to detailed account of his career we note first 
that Mr.Boyd was born in Granville county,Canada,on March 16,1846,the son of 
Joseph and  Mary (Maloney)Boyd,natives of Ireland. The fact that his parents 
came from the Emerald Isle,Opens to us the secret of Mr.Boyd's energy and 
capability. They came to America when young and located in Canada where they 
remained for fifty-five years;they went into the wild forest and with their 
own hands built a home,cleared a farm and became wealthy. The paternal 
grandfather of our subject was a great sportsman and owned many fine horses 
and dogs in Ireland.
	The humble little frontier home in Canada that afterwards became the 
headquarters of a prosperous farmer,was the birthplace of seven children,
including our subject;Mary,Ellen,Sarah.Thomas,Tamer,Joseph and William. Our 
subject was reared and educated in his native place and continued faithfully 
and industriously assisting his parents until he reached the age of 
twenty-eight;then he came west to Colorado and afterwards mined in Nevada,
Idaho,Arizona,New Mexico and California. He returned again to Arizona and in 
1887 came to Stevens county. He first selected a farm near Spokane but sold 
that and came to his residence four miles south of Chewelah where he has 
remained ever since. Like his father in Canada,he took hold with his hands,
staked out the wild farm,fenced it,built a cabin and began bringing it under
tribute to crops.He now has two hundred acres,nearly all under cultivation,
and about seventy-five cattle.
   In November,1885,Mr.Boyd married Miss Elizabeth Wade,whose parents were
natives of Illinois,she,herself,being born in Cass county of that state in
1853.Four children have been born to this union:John,William J.,Thomas
Theodore,all with their parents.Mr.Boyd is a good,active Republican and a
man of substantial quality and worth:he and his wife are members of the 
Congregational church.
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