HISTORY OF ALLEGHENY COUNTY Including It's early settlement and progress to the present time; a descriptin of its historic and interesting localities; its cities, towns and villages; religious, educational, social and military history; mining, manufacturing and commercial interests; improements, resources, statistics, etc. also Portriats of some of its prominent men, and biographies of many of its representative citizens. In Two Parts Chicago, Ill: A. Warner & Co., Publishers 1889 Part II Page: 356 * WILLIAM BOYD, *retired, Wilkinsburg, was born in the County Down, near Belfast, Ireland, November 28, 1816. Six years later his parents, David and Mary (Bryson) Boyd, came to America, and settled on a farm in that part of Indiana township, which no consititutes O'Hara. There the father died at the age of seventy-seven, and the mother when eighty-six. They had six sons and one daughter: John, Alex, David, Hugh, James, William and Jane (mrs. Dr. John Wadsworth). William, who is the youngest and only one living, remained on the home farm till eighteen years old, when he went to Pittsbugh and learned the molder's trade. With two parnters, he started a foundry at Johnstown in 1836, and continued to operate it nine years. He came to Wilkinsburg in 1845, and dealt in cattle and stock fourteen years; bought a farm in aIndina township, which he cultivated till 1873, when he returned to Wilkinsburg, and is here extensively interested in real estate. He and his family are connected with the Covenanters' Church, of which his parents were members. Mr. Boyd is an active democrat, and came within a few votes of being made burgess in 1888, although the borough is overwhelmingly republican. In 1859, he married Louise M., daughter of William and Mary (Markle) Miller, of Westmoreland county, Pa., of German descent. Mrs. Louise M. Boyd is a niece of the late Gen. Joseph Markle, of Mill Grove. Mr. and Mrs. Boyd have two daughters, Mary and Jennie, at home.