BIO: George S. BOYD, Beaver County, PA
    
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    BOOK OF BIOGRAPHIES.  This Volume Contains Biographical Sketches 
    of Leading Citizens of Beaver County, Pennsylvania.  Buffalo, N.Y., 
    Chicago, Ill.: Biographical Publishing Company, 1899, pp. 80-83.
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    DR. GEORGE S. BOYD, a popular and successful physician of Beaver Falls,
  Pa., is one of the most prominent Homeopathic practitioners in Beaver county.
  He has been practicing at his present location for nearly twenty years, and
  controls a large business. Dr. Boyd has worked hard and earnestly for his
  success, and deserves the reputation and confidence with which he has been
  rewarded.
    
    Dr. Boyd was born at New Sheffield, Pa., on May 6, 1850. He received his
  primary mental training in both public and select schools, afterwards taking
  a collegiate course at Curry Institute in Pittsburg. After receiving special
  tuition in that school, he followed the profession of teaching for a period
  of nine years, chiefly in Beaver county. He decided to fit himself for the
  medical profession, and with that object in view, he studied medicine with
  his brother, John S. Boyd, after which he took the required course of
  lectures at the Cleveland Homeopathic Hospital College, and graduated with
  the class of 1880. Dr. Boyd immediately established himself in Beaver Falls
  and has remained ever since, even occupying the same office, refitted,
  however, from time to time, with the most modern appliances used by the most
  progressive medical men of today. His practice, small at first, has increased
  with each succeeding year until now the Doctor has all he can attend to.
    
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  band and resides in Beaver Falls. Mrs. Boyd was, before marriage, Miss Martha
  Maratta. She was born in 1820 in Hopewell township, Beaver county,
  Pennsylvania. The Doctor's brothers and sisters are John S., of New Brighton;
  Sarah (Todd), of Washington, Iowa; and Frank, of Beaver Falls. The highly
  respected father was an earnest Republican, and took a decided interest in
  the success of his party. He was honored by the confidence of the people, and
  served as postmaster before and during the Civil War.
    
    Dr. Boyd is, at this writing, a very active man. His constitution has been
  of that sort that has enabled him to go through all kinds of weather to
  attend to his practice, without any bad effect upon himself. His affluent
  circumstances are due to thrift and careful attention to his professional
  duties, and his standing in the community is certainly well merited.