- JAMES BOYD, farmer; Sec. 35; P.O. Lima Center; born in County
Antrim, Ireland, in 1823.
- He resolved at an early age to seek his fortune in the New
World, and landed at New York in 1842, locating in Jefferson
Co., Wis., the same year, where he lived twenty-two years; sold
his farm, except forty acres, and settled on the farm he now
owns of 180 acres in 1866. Married Miss Nancy SIMPSON in 1840,
who died in January, 1855, leaving 5 children - Jane, Agnes,
William E., Mary and James. He married Miss Nancy KYLE in 1857;
they have six children - Elizabeth, Levina, John, Thomas, Lillie
and Edward. He is a Republican, and the family are members of
the Lima Presbyterian Church. He raises cattle (short-horn grades),
Poland-China hogs, and has fifty merino sheep. He had but little
to start with in Jefferson Co., but "stuck to his bush"
and made home and farm before he was 50 years of age.
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- Taken from "History of Rock County Wis." (c)1879,
p. 789.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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