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Boyd family papers, 1781-1933 (bulk 1840-1928)
BANC MSS Z-Z 115localBANC FILM 3029local
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Title:
Boyd family papers, 1781-1933 (bulk 1840-1928)Creator/Contributor:
Boyd (Family, Wayne County, Ind.), creator, creator.Creator/Contributor:
Boyd, Samuel Scott, 1820-1888, creator.Creator/Contributor:
Boyd, William A., 1824-1864, creator.Creator/Contributor:
Boyd, Monimia Bunnell, 1824-1862, correspondent.Creator/Contributor:
Boyd, Louise Vickroy, 1827-1909, correspondent.Abstract:
Contains correspondence, property and legal records, writings, and genealogical materials and accounts of the Boyd family
of Indiana. Chiefly correspondence and papers of Dr. Samuel S. Boyd, including his Civil War scrapbook with 3 photographs,
documents, and newspaper articles written for the True Republican by Boyd, who volunteered as a surgeon after his wife's death
in 1862; also contains the Civil War diary of his brother, William A. Boyd, both officers in the 84th Indiana Volunteers.
Includes correspondence of S.S. Boyd's first wife, Monimia Bunnell, with whose father Boyd studied medicine, and a few letters
from Boyd's second wife, the poet, Louise Vickroy. Letters from various other members of the Boyd family of Indiana are also
included, along with genealogical notes and charts, and clippings.
A detailed manuscript map of Franklin, Tennessee, drawn in pencil by Samuel S. Boyd and presented to his son, Lawson A. Boyd,
depicts the settlement and position of various regiments, equipment, and supplies on April 10, 1863.
Photographs include a group portrait of Company "C" 84th Indiana Volunteers with a list of names of those pictured (including
Major W.A. Boyd). Dublin, Indiana photographs include the academy with two portraits inset, the "Double Inn" with men seated
in front, and a large group portrait taken at a Boyd family picnic.
Date:
1840 (issued)Subject:
n-us--- -- n-us-in -- n-us-tnRegimental histories
Medical care
Indiana -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Regimental histories
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Medical care
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives
Wayne County (Ind.) -- History
Franklin (Tenn.) -- Maps
Dublin (Ind.) -- Pictorial works
Indiana -- Histoire -- 1861-1865 (Guerre de Sécession) -- Histoire des unités
États-Unis -- Histoire -- 1861-1865 (Guerre de Sécession) -- Récits personnels
Indiana
Indiana -- Dublin
Indiana -- Wayne County
Tennessee -- Franklin
United States
United States. -- Army. -- Indiana Infantry Regiment, 84th (1862-1865)
United States. -- Army. -- Indiana Infantry Regiment, 84th (1862-1865) -- Pictorial works
United States. -- Army. -- Indiana Infantry Regiment, 84th (1862-1865)
Boyd family -- Archives
Boyd family -- Pictorial works
Bunnell family
Boyd, Samuel Scott -- 1820-1888 -- Family -- Archives
Boyd, William A -- 1824-1864 -- Diaries
Boyd (Famille) -- Ouvrages illustrés
Boyd (Famille) -- Archives
Boyd family
Bunnell family
Note:
COLLECTION STORED, IN PART, OFF-SITE : Advance notice required for use.
Copy of William A. Boyd diary, 1862 Aug. 11-1863 Sept. (Box 1, folder 24): Available on microfilm with call number BANC FILM
3029.
History of Wayne County, Indiana, from its first settlement to the present time; with numerous biographical and family sketches.
By Andrew W. Young ... Embellished with upwards of fifty portraits of citizens, and views of buildings. Cincinnati : R. Clarke
& Co., print, 1872. (Classified as: F532.W5. in the book collections of The Bancroft Library).
Commemorative medallions transferred to the Pictorial Collections of The Bancroft Library - object miscellany (BANC PIC 19xx.031:123).
Samuel Scott Boyd was born March 31, 1820 in Jacksonburg, Wayne County, Indiana. He was married first on October 14, 1844
to Monimia Bunnell. Following her death in 1862, he married a second time to Louise Vickroy on September 5, 1865. Boyd died
April 15, 1888 in Dublin, Wayne County, Indiana.
William A. Boyd was born in 1824. On February 25, 1851 he was married to Sarah A. Thompson. He enlisted on August 11, 1862
as a Captain and was commissioned on September 3, 1862 into "C" Company, 84th Indiana Infantry. He was promoted to Major on
December 10, 1863 and died of wounds on July 11, 1864.
Boyd family papers, BANC MSS Z-Z 115, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
In English.
Type:
photographs.diaries.
manuscript maps.
scrapbooks.
History
Maps
Personal narratives
Pictorial works
Photographs.
Diaries.
Biographies.
Maps.
Manuscript maps.
Family histories.
Albums (Books)
Scrapbooks.
Genealogies.
Photographies.
Journaux intimes.
Biographies.
Cartes géographiques.
Cartes manuscrites.
Histoires familiales.
Albums personnalisés.
Physical Description:
print
(0.75 linear feet (1 4
1 negative (BNEG Box 3241) and positive
Language:
English
Identifier:
BANC MSS Z-Z 115local
BANC FILM 3029local
Origin:
IndianaCopyright Note:
COLLECTION STORED, IN PART, OFF-SITE : Advance notice required for use.