Boyd, John F.

BOYD

Posted By: Joyce Hickman (email)
Date: 11/14/2007 at 22:23:01

John F. Boyd

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.13, Council Bluffs)
John F. Boyd, Superintendent of the Transfer Stock Yards, Council Bluffs, was born in Worcester County, Mass., in 1845, and in 1865 came to Council Bluffs, where he engaged in the stock business, in the interest of which he spent four years in Texas. In January 1880, he was appointed to his present position, Superintendent of the Transfer Stock Yards at Council Bluffs, which he ably fills, having under his direction about twenty-three men. Mr. Boyd was married in Massachusetts in 1874, and has three children - Leon Lovell, aged six years; Mable A., aged three years, and Lulu, eight months old.