From History of Rock County Wis., publ. 1879, page 789 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. *For those who may be wondering about the counties of Jefferson and Walworth being mentioned in Rock County bios. Lima is an area in the NE part of Rock County, with Walworth County to the East and Jefferson County to the NE.... and some of the farmer's lands I'm sure overlapped at some point into the other counties (and maybe still do). We've got an even more confusing situation at the Southern border of Rock County... it borders Boone County, IL., and since Clinton is only 4 miles North of that border, some of our farmers who live just South of Clinton have their homes on one side (in WI) and the land they cultivate across the road, in IL! (Hope you didn't mind me inserting a little geography here.)