James Findley Boyd and Marian Oldfield

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Husband James Findley Boyd ¹

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            AKA: Findlay J. Boyd,2 Finley Boyd 3
           Born: 30 Sep 1865 - near Sandy Lake, Mercer Co, PA 2
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         Father: Barber H. Boyd (1833-Aft 1909) 1 3 4
         Mother: Isabella Burrows (1837-Aft 1909) 2

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       Marriage: 14 Sep 1899 1

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Wife Marian Oldfield ¹

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         Father: Joseph Oldfield (      -      ) 1
         Mother: Marian Simpson (      -      ) 1

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General Notes: Husband - James Findley Boyd

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He went from the public schools of Mercer County, Pennsylvania, to McElwaine Institute, a preparatory school at Lebanon, Pennsylvania, and after four years of close study was most creditably graduated there. Later he attended the State Normal School at Edinboro and subsequently taught school for five terms in Mercer County. He then turned his attention to the oil industry, a business which was assuming large proportions in Pennsylvania, and after spending two years in Warren County he went to Washington County, where he then made his home. At first he was rig-builder and also foreman for the South Penn. Oil Company, but later he was individually interested.
He and his wife were members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. In politics he was an Independent. He served three years in the borough council, but otherwise he did not fill political office. He was both a Mason and an Odd Fellow, in the former fraternity being a member of Garfield Lodge at McDonald and of Chartiers Commandery, and has attained to the thirty-second degree.

1 Joseph F. McFarland, 20th Century History of Washington and Washington County, Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1910), Pg 578.

2 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 1111.

3 J. G. White, A Twentieth Century History of Mercer County Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1909), Pg 645.

4 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 1110.