Boyle, H. S.

BOYLE

Posted By: Joyce Hickman (email)
Date: 12/1/2008 at 13:48:23

H. S. Boyle

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.14, Council Bluffs)
H. S. Boyle, commission merchant, Council Bluffs, was born in a railroad camp in 1837. This was the Albany & Schenectady Railroad, which was the second railroad built in the United States. It is now a branch of the N. Y. C. & H. R. R. Up to the present year, our subject has been in the railroad business all of his life. He helped to build the first railroad in Texas; he built the Wisconsin Central from Stevens Point to Ashland; he built the last ten miles of Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad, at the Council Bluffs end of that road, employing from 10,000 to 15,000 men; he contracted for and built five miles of the Wabash Railroad in Mills County, this State. July 1, 1882, he opened in this present business; he keeps a stock of wood, coal, flour, feed, etc., and does a general commission business. He was married at Darlington, Wis., in January, 1861, to Miss Matilda M. Durst, of Erie, Penn., a cousin of Gen. Robert E. Lee, of rebellion fame. Mr. and Mrs. Boyle have two children - Harry E., aged eighteen years and Leila N., aged thirteen. Our subject's father died in Erie, Penn., in 1845, at the age of seventy. The mother died in McGregor, this State, in 1868, being seventy-six years old.