in Company E, Third Iowa Infantry until mustered out of service on June 18, 1864. He was a participant in the engagements at Shiloh, Corinth, Hatchie River, siege of Vicksburg, Jackson, Miss., and numerous minor battles. After his return home he was engaged for some three years in farming, but since 1868 has been in the employ of the well-known general merchants, Baldwin & Maxwell. He has also given considerable attention to the hotel busiNess in the past twelve years, and is now the owner of the Maxwell Hotel, one of the best kept houses in the county. He was married in 1864 to Miss M. E. Will, who was born in Virginia in 1846, and to them have been born the following children: Ulysses F., Alice M., Edna I., William S., John E., Kate, Curtis, Esther, Glenn and Anna. He is a member of James H. Ewing Post No. 305 of the G. A. R., of which he is the present commander. He has always been popular throughout this section of the country, and is one of the men who is working to bring Iowa into the very front ranks as a Republican State.
George W. Boyd is a butcher and dealer in ice at Nevada, Story County, Iowa, and was born in Carter County, Tenn., on March 16, 1843, being a son of J. R. and Elizabeth (Boyd) Boyd, who were born in 1810 and 1816, respectively, the former being now a resident of Nevada, the latter dying on May 27, 1883. The paternal grandfather was James R. Boyd, and the great-grandfather was William Boyd, who was a soldier in the Revolutionary War. George W. Boyd is the third of a family of ten children, of whom eight are living, and after remaining in TenNessee until 1851, he removed with his family to Illinois, and six years later to Jasper County, Iowa. Here he was reared to manhood on a farm, receiving the advantages of the common schools, but upon attaining his majority he went to the far west where he remained four years. He then returned to Iowa and remained in Jasper County until 1874, when he came to Nevada, and here has since resided, his entire time having been devoted to the occupation of butchering. He is one of the leading men in this branch of busiNess in the town ; from 1877 to 1883 it was conducted under the firm name of Boyd & Childs, but since 1885 the firm has been Boyd Bros. They are doing an excellent trade, and have a well regulated and extensive meat market. Since 1874 Mr. Boyd has also been engaged in the ice busiNess, and erected the first good ice-house in Nevada. In his political views he has always been a Democrat, and he is now a member of the city council, and socially belongs to the I. O. O. F. His marriage to Miss Frances Bates took place in 1874, her birth having occurred in Ohio, and to them have been born the following children: Orvill E., Edward, Bessie M. and Earl.
Knud P. Boyd. Near the city of Bergen, in the far away land of Norway, the subject of this sketch was born (in Skaanevig) June 15, 1845. His parents, Peter A. Boyd and Sarah, Alsager, were Norwegians by birth and education, and the father died in 1860. Knud came to America in 1866, locating in Kendall County, Ill., and from there moved to Iowa, where in 1880 he purchased his present valuable farm. He has spared neither time nor expense in improving his land, and is to-day one of the most prominent farmers in Story County. He also devotes a great deal of time to stock-raising. In politics Mr. Boyd is an. Independent. On April 19, 1870, he was united in holy wedlock to Miss Betsy T. Thorsen, of Grundy County, Ill., and a daughter of Thor. Thorsen and Annie A. Nes. Her father is now a resident of Kendall County, and originally came from Norway. Mr. and Mrs. Boyd have had nine chil-