Byron Boyd

Byron Boyd (born August 31, 1864 in Victoria Corner New Brunswick , † 1941 ) was an American teacher, businessman and politician who was Secretary of State of Maine from 1897 to 1906 .

Life

Robert Byron Boyd was born in Victoria Corner, New Brunswick, to physician Robert Boyd and Eliza J. Savage. When he was four years old, he moved to Linneus with his parents . There he attended public schools. He graduated from the Houlton Academy in Colby in 1886 with a Bachelor of Arts degree .

He then worked for a year as a teacher in Bar Harbor and another two years as a real estate agent. In 1889 he joined the office of the Secretary of State of Maine. After a while, he was made Deputy Secretary of State. As a member of the Republican Party , he was Secretary of State of Maine from 1897 to 1906. From 1903 to 1910 he was chairman of the Republican State Committee. He was a delegate to the Maine Republican Assembly in 1904, 1908, 1924, 1932, 1936, and 1940.

After he left the office of Secretary of State, he worked in the timber industry and took care of cedar wood products. This is how railway sleepers, telegraph poles and roof shingles were made.

In 1895 he married Lucy E. Burleigh, daughter of Maine Governor Edwin C. Burleigh . The couple had three children, two daughters and one son. Byron Boyd died in 1941. His grave is in Forest Grove Cemetery in Augusta .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Maine Secretaries of State, 1820- | Maine State Legislature. In: maine.gov. legislature.maine.gov, accessed October 12, 2015 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Harrie B. Coe: Maine Biographies . Genealogical Publishing Com, 2003, ISBN 978-0-8063-5124-7 ( books.google.com ).
3. ^ The Political Graveyard: Burleigh family of Maine. In: politicalgraveyard.com. Retrieved October 12, 2015 . 

Web links

• Byron Boyd in the database of Find a Grave (English)