From "History of Wheeling City and Ohio County, West Virginia and 
Representative Citizens," by Hon. Gibson Lamb Cranmer, 1902. 

Typed by Laurie Birks Dean

p. 415

Hon. George E. BOYD, who is very well known in legal circles in West 
Virginia, has been a resident of Wheeling since 1850.  He was born in 
Cumberland, Guernsey county, Ohio, in 1840.
	The father of the subject of this sketch was born in November, 
1812.  He removed from Ohio to Wheeling in 1850, where he was engaged 
in the wholesale dry goods business with Mr. Ott.  After Mr. Ott's 
death he carried on the business alone until 1858, when he went to 
Philadelphia, where he engaged in the banking business.  He remained 
in Philadelphia until 1867, when he moved Chase City, Mecklenberg 
county, Virginia.  He is now eighty-nine years old, and is conducting 
a farm near Chase City.  His wife has been dead for three years.  
They enjoyed sixty-four years of married life.  One daughter is 
living with Mr. Boyd, and the rest of his children are living in New 
York City and in New Jersey.  One son, John W. Boyd, deceased, was 
for many years engaged in the wholesale grocery business in Wheeling, 
and George E., the subject of this sketch, has always lived in this 
city since he first came here.
	George E. Boyd received his primary education in Wheeling, and 
in 1858, at the age of eighteen years, was graduated from Washington 
and Jefferson College.  He then attended the Cincinnati Law School, 
and graduated from that institution in 1860.  He was admitted to the 
bar of Ohio county in December, 1861.  Judge Boyd at once took up the 
general practice of law.  His father-in-law, Hon. Alfred Caldwell, 
was appointed consul at Honolulu, and until 1867 Judge Boyd carried 
on the business under the name of Caldwell & Boyd.  In 1867 Judge 
Boyd went to New Martinsville, Wetzel county, West Virginia, where he 
remained five years.  During 1871-72 he acted as prosecuting attorney 
for that county.  In 1872 he returned to Wheeling and practiced here 
until 1876, when he was elected to the bench as judge of the County 
Court.  He served in this office until 1881, when he was chosen judge 
of the Circuit Court, and served in this capacity until January 1, 
1889.  During this time Judge Boyd turned over some of his legal 
business to Hon. Joseph F. Paull.  Since 1889 Judge Boyd has followed 
the general practice of law.  He has always had a large and lucrative 
practice, and has met with great success in his chosen profession.  
He is well known in Wheeling and in this section of West Virginia, 
having won the confidence and esteem of all who have come in contact 
with him.
	Judge Boyd married a daughter of Hon. Alfred Caldwell.  He has 
a son, - G. E., who was graduated from the law department of the 
University of West Virginia in 1886, after which he attended the law 
school of the University of Virginia.  Judge Boyd's son, Alfred C., 
deceased, was a newspaper man.  His daughter, Beulah, is the wife of 
Charles M. Ritchie, of Fairmont, West Virginia.