Independent Order of Odd Fellows at Gilbert and the Yeomen at Ames, and he also belongs to the Congregational church at Gilbert. For about fifty-five years he has been a witness of the development and progress of this county, as its wild lands have been converted into fine farms, as towns and cities have been builded and as the work of progress has been carried forward along many lines. He is in entire sympathy with the onward movement and his cooperation has been given to various measures for the general good.
O. S. BOYD.
O. S. Boyd is identified with the financial interests of Story county as assistant cashier of the Farmers Savings Bank of Roland and with the agricultural interests of the community as the owner of one hundred and forty-three acres of valuable land adjoining the town on the east. He also has other business interests and is regarded as an enterprising man who is ready to meet the demands of the hour in every relation, proving his worth in citizenship as well as in business circles.
He is one of the native sons of the county, his birth having occurred on a farm two and a half miles northeast of Roland, on the 29th of December, 1873. He was the eldest of four children of J. H. and Julia (Duea) Boyd, both of whom were natives of Grundy county, Illinois, born near Lisbon. They were of Norwegian lineage and the mother came to Story county with her parents when but three years of age. The father was a young man when he arrived in this locality and they were married here in 1871. His death occurred in October, 1884, when he was but thirty-seven years of age. His widow afterward became the wife of Chris Logan and now resides about four miles northwest of Roland. The children of the first marriage are: O. S., of this review; Martha, the wife of the Rev. John M. Mason, pastor of the United Lutheran church of America, now located at Watrous, Saskatchewan, Canada ; Rachel, who died at the age of seven years; and Josie, the wife of O. P. Teig, a farmer living a mile south of Roland.
O. S. Boyd has spent his entire life in Story county and supplemented his early education by a four years' course at the State Agricultural College at Ames, from which he was graduated in 1898, the degree of Bachelor of Science being then conferred upon him. Turning his attention to educational pursuits he served as superintendent of the schools of Roland for two years. He then became connected with mercantile interests, being associated with H. C. Duea and T. C. Jacobson in partnership for three years under the firm name of Duea, Jacobson & Boyd. On the 1st of April, 1904, he accepted his present position as assistant cashier of the Farmers Savings Bank of Roland and in 1905 was elected one of its directors. He is also interested in a fire insurance company and derives a substantial income