Boyle, L. - biography
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Boyle, L. - biography
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Classification: Biography
Surnames: Boyle, Lennox, Nickerson, Gifford
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from reprint of “Clarke County Historical and Biographical Record” by Lewis Publishing, 1886. p. 36.
L. BOYLE, an active and enterprising business man of Osceola, who is also extensively engaged in breeding and raising stock, was born in Cornwall, England, November 14, 1837. When eleven years old he was brought to America by his parents, John and Mary (Lennox) Boyle, who settled in Canada West. After the mother’s death the father returned to England where he died in 1885.
L. Boyle, our subject, began his career as a clerk at the early age of twelve years, and was employed in that capacity by various parties till attaining the age of manhood. In 1861 he came to Iowa from Illinois where he had lived a number of years. He located at McGregor, where he remained two years, engaged in the dry-goods business with his two brothers.
He then returned to Iowa, and in the fall of 1868 came to Clarke County, and engaged in the grocery business at Osceola, to which he has since devoted the greater part of his time. He keeps a well assorted stock of family groceries, and by his strict attention to the wants of his customers, he has built up a large trade. Mr. Boyle also owns a good farm of eighty acres, and is engaged in raising horses of a high grade. He has at present twenty head of fine horses, among which may be mentioned Little Crow, Jr.
Mr. Boyle was united in marriage in 1864, to Miss Sarah Nickerson, of Canada, and to this union have been born six children-- Jessie, wife of Harry Gifford, of Creston; Carrie, Edith and Alice (twins), and Ethel and Harry (twins). Mr. Boyle is one of the prominent citizens of Osceola, always taking an active interest in every enterprise which tends toward the public good.
from reprint of “Clarke County Historical and Biographical Record” by Lewis Publishing, 1886. p. 36.
L. BOYLE, an active and enterprising business man of Osceola, who is also extensively engaged in breeding and raising stock, was born in Cornwall, England, November 14, 1837. When eleven years old he was brought to America by his parents, John and Mary (Lennox) Boyle, who settled in Canada West. After the mother’s death the father returned to England where he died in 1885.
L. Boyle, our subject, began his career as a clerk at the early age of twelve years, and was employed in that capacity by various parties till attaining the age of manhood. In 1861 he came to Iowa from Illinois where he had lived a number of years. He located at McGregor, where he remained two years, engaged in the dry-goods business with his two brothers.
He then returned to Iowa, and in the fall of 1868 came to Clarke County, and engaged in the grocery business at Osceola, to which he has since devoted the greater part of his time. He keeps a well assorted stock of family groceries, and by his strict attention to the wants of his customers, he has built up a large trade. Mr. Boyle also owns a good farm of eighty acres, and is engaged in raising horses of a high grade. He has at present twenty head of fine horses, among which may be mentioned Little Crow, Jr.
Mr. Boyle was united in marriage in 1864, to Miss Sarah Nickerson, of Canada, and to this union have been born six children-- Jessie, wife of Harry Gifford, of Creston; Carrie, Edith and Alice (twins), and Ethel and Harry (twins). Mr. Boyle is one of the prominent citizens of Osceola, always taking an active interest in every enterprise which tends toward the public good.