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BOYD, Alston M.

City: Memphis

BOYD, Alston M., real estate agent; born Pine Bluff, Ark., Jan. 9, 1878; Scotch-English descent; son of Irby and Mary (Fuller) BOYD; father’s occupation cotton merchant and planter; educated in Memphis and Alabama Polytechnic Institute, and graduated from later [sic] B.S. degree June, 1899; early occupation, connected with Memphis Machine Works, and five years with Chickasaw Base Ball team, 1898-1903; attended Paris exposition, 1900, and St. Louis World’s Fair, 1904; married Mary BELL, Feb. 17, 1904; member Chickasaw Guards Club; Democrat; served as lieutenant in military company in Ala. Polytechnic Institute; member of Presbyterian church.

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