Career
He was president of the International Association of Fire Chiefs in 1924. He was born on March 20, 1865 in Abingdon, Virginia to Samuel Becket Boyd I (1828-1890) and Isabella Reed (1831-1907). He had a sister, Isabella Kennedy Boyd (1860-1936) who married John Mebane Allen.
He joined the fire department in 1900.
He was president of the International Association of Fire Chiefs in 1924. He died on March 29, 1929 of a heart attack in Knoxville, Tennessee after a fire while in route to the hospital.
He was buried in the Old Gray Cemetery in Knoxville, Tennessee.
