Background
Boyd, son of James and Mary (Munro) Boyd, of the borough of Winsted, in the town of Winchester, Connecticut, was born March 17,1799.
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Education
After graduating from Yale College in 1821, he studied law in New Haven, with Messrs.
Career
Staples and Hitchcock, and was admitted to the bar in 1825. He settled in his native town as an iron manufacturer, retiring from business in 1853, and was also largely occupied with public trusts. Foreign fifteen years he was Judge of Probate, and for twenty-six years Town Clerk of his native town.
He was Secretary of State in 1859, 1860, and 1861.
In 1873 he published the Annals and Family Records of Winchester (octavo, pp 632), a laborious work. Theodore Hinsdale, of Winsted, who died March 11, 1875, aged 72 years.
He died in West Winsted, in Winchester, December 1, 1881, in his 83rd year. This article incorporates public domain material from the 1882 Yale Obituary Record.
Membership
He was a representative in the Connecticut General Assembly of the State in 1830 and 1835, and a member of the Connecticut State Senate in 1854.
