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Below is a family biography included in the History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania published in 1889 by A. Warner & Co. These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary. Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more. There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.
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REV. DR. BOYD. John Carnahan Boyd, D. D., was born in Westmoreland county, Pa., Jan. 16, 1832. He graduated from Jefferson in 1854, and studied theology at Allegheny. He was licensed April 4, 1857, and was ordained April 14, 1858. He has been pastor of St. Clair, this county, ever since his ordination, and is corresponding secretary of the board of publication. He was a delegate to the first Pan-Presbyterian Council in 1877, a professor and editor of the Evangelical Repository in 1881-85, and is now associate editor of the United Presbyterian. His publications have been: “An Anniversary Discourse,” “The History of the Synod of Pittsburgh,” and the “History of the Second Associate Reformed Presbytery of Pennsylvania.” He is the author of the history of the U. P. Church in Allegheny county published in this work.
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This family biography is one of 2,156 biographies included in the History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania published in 1889 by A. Warner & Co.
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