George Boyd

    George Boyd, of Ross Township, is of the second generation of the family who have been so conspicuous in the agricultural history of Lake County form its early history to the present. He is himself one of the younger class of farmers of his township, and is of the energetic and progressive sort that takes farming out of its ruts and empirical methods of the past and furnishes it a smooth course and adapts scientific process to soil culture. Mr. Boyd has also taken his place among the public spirited citizenship of the county, and to social, material and intellectual progress gives his interest and cooperation.

    Mr. George Boyd is the eldest son of Eli M. and Agnes (Hyde) Boyd, the former of whom has lived in Lake County ever since 1848, and is one of the old and well known farmers and useful citizens, having been identified with the making of Lake County in many of its present essential features. The son George was born in Ross Township, Lake County, October 9, 1877. He was educated in the common schools of Ross Township and at the Northern Indiana Normal College at Valparaiso, finishing his literary training at Northwestern University, at Evanston. He then engaged in farming in his native township, and has continued at it with great success to the present time. He does general farming and stock-raising, operating a farm of three hundred acres, a part of the large estates of the Boyd Brothers.

    Mr. Boyd is a leading young Republican of his township, and as far as his business interests permit concerns himself with public affairs both of national and local importance. He was united in marriage, February 5, 1901, to Miss Addie Guernsey, the daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth Guernsey, well known citizens of this county. Two children have been born to them, Lenore and Lucile.

SOURCE: Encyclopedia of Genealogy and Biography of Lake County, Indiana, with a compendium of History 1834-1904 . A record of the Achievements of its people in the Making of a Commonwealth and the Founding of a Nation. By Rev. T. H. Ball of Crown Point, Editor-in-chief. The Lewis Publishing Company, 1904, page 401.