Civil War Governors of Kentucky · Civil War Governors of Kentucky

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London, Kentucky, circuit court clerk and attorney. Whitley County, Kentucky, native. Son of Samuel Boyd and Mary A. Sears Boyd. Attended the common school in Whitley County. Attended Centre College in Danville, Kentucky. Read law with Judge Green Adams, in Barbourville, Kentucky, in 1855. Clerk of the Whitley Circuit Court from 1856 to 1862. Admitted to the bar in 1858. Relocated and practiced law in London from 1863 to 1867.

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Sex: Male
Race: White

Bibliography

W. H. Perrin, J. H. Battle, and G. C. Kniffin, Kentucky: A History of the State, 8th ed. (Louisville and Chicago: F. A. Battey and Company, 1888), 753-754.

Find A Grave, "Judge Robert Boyd (1833-1906)," Memorial #30091404, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/30091404/robert-boyd (accessed August 7, 2017).

Citation

Boyd, Robert. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32197663 (November 12, 2026).

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Correspondence
F. C. McCalla to George W. Johnson
1861-05-28
Correspondence
W. F. Bullock, Jr. to George W. Johnson
1861-05-31

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