Sedgwick County KSGenWeb

Portrait And Biographical Album of Sedgwick County, Kan.

Chapman Brothers 1888

Pages 1112 - 1113

 H. C. BOYLE is the senior member of the firm of H. C. Boyle & Bro., dealers in agricultural implements, wagons and buggies, at Valley Center. They are conducting an extensive and successful business throughout a large section of the country, and are pre-eminently qualified for the work in which they are engaged. 

            Mr. Boyle is a native of Putnam County, Ill., where he was born in 1846, and is the eldest in a family of six children born to David and Lovina (Mathis) Boyle, natives respectively of Kentucky and Ohio. The paternal grandparents, David and Rachel Boyle, were natives of Kentucky, and settled in Putnam County, where they were among the pioneer settlers, and resided during the Black Hawk War. The maternal grandparents of our subject, Caleb and Margaret Mathis, were natives of New Jersey, and emigrated to Ohio at an early day, and from there removed to Illinois, locating in Putnam County, among its pioneers. 

            The father of our subject was one of the younger members of the family, and remained on the homestead in Illinois, engaged in farming, until his removal in 1884 to this State, where he settled, and now resides in Wichita. His excellent wife was called to her reward in the spring of 1887. 

            Our subject was reared to farm life, and received his education at the district schools and the Wesleyan University, at Bloomington, which he attended some two years. At the close of school life he engaged in farming, and when he saw his way clear to the establishment of a home of his own, he was united in marriage, in Jefferson County, Ohio, in March, 1870, with Miss Lydia F. Morris, who was born in the Buckeye State in 1846. She is the daughter of Edward and Hannah (Yost) Morris, natives respectively of Ohio and Virginia, and her paternal grandparents, Edward and Hannah (Morrell) Morris, were among the early settlers of Ohio. Her maternal grandparents, Michael and Rachel (Keckley) Yost, were natives of Virginia, and at an early day migrated to Ohio, when it was yet a Territory. The Yosts participated in the War of 1812 and earned a good record. Father Morris lived in Ohio until his death, which occurred in April, 1880, at eighty-three years of age. His excellent wife survived him some three years, and passed away at the age of eighty-two.

             After marriage our subject settled on a farm in Illinois, and remained until coming to the West in 1876. On his arrival in this county he purchased 240 acres of improved land, on section 30, Grant Township, but three years later he removed to section 31, of the same township, where he now resides. He owns as fine a farm as can be found in Sedgwick County, located just outside the corporation, and containing an elegant farm residence with commodious and substantial out-buildings. His farm is operated by tenants, and contains high-grade Hambletonian horses and Short-horn cattle. He has also several lots platted in what is called Boyle's Addition to Valley Center. To Mr. and Mrs. Boyle have been born two children—Orville and Myron D. E. Orville is eighteen years of age, and is attending Garfield University at Wichita, while Myron, who is nine years old, is at home attending school. 

            Mr. Boyle votes the Republican ticket, but he is not very much interested in the subject of politics. He has held the offices of Town Clerk and School Director, and is one of the Directors of the Building and Loan Association, at Valley Center. Mr. and Mrs. Boyle are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and were among its organizers in this place, the building being located on their farm. Mr. Boyle has held the offices of Trustee and Steward since the organization of the church, and he and Mrs. Boyle are worthy and honored members of society.

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