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Rev. J. C. Boyd, D. D., post office Mt. Lebanon, was born in Westmoreland county, Pa., in 1832. He is the fourth of nine children born to William Boyd, a farmer of Westmoreland county. He received his academic education at. Jacksonville, Indiana county, Pa., and Jefferson College, Cannonsburg, Pa., and entered the Theological Seminary of Allegheny in 1854. graduating in 1858. He was called to the St. Clair congregation in the same year, and since that date has been its pastor. He married, in 1859, Mattie McFarland, who died in 1869. She was the third daughter of Col. John McFarland. But one son of this marriage is living, William M., now a resident of Newton, Kan. Mr. Boyd next married Miss Maggie A. Lindsay, of this county, only daughter of James Lindsay, Esq., and they have five children: Myra L., Jay Calvin, James Howard, Jane and Lois Edith. Dr. Boyd has always taken an active part in all religious work connected with his church, and was four years editor of the Evangelical Repository, the oldest religious monthly in the church, first published in 1824. He is now one of the editors and publishers of the Evangelical Repository, and associate editor of the United Presbyterian. He was one of the delegates to the Pan-Presbyterian council, which met at Edinburgh, Scotland (for the first time), in 1877, and in many other religious movements he has taken an active part.