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MARCUS BOYD 1803-1866
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Grand Master, 1859-1860
BIOGRAPHY
From Biographies of Past Grand Masters, 1821-1901, by the Grand Lodge of Missouri:
Most Worshipful Brother Marcus Boyd first appeared in the Grand Lodge in 1853. He represented, as Worshipful Master, Greene Lodge No. 101, located at Springfield, Missouri, afterwards Unity No. 5. He was made District Deputy Grand Master. At the Annual Communication in May, 1856, he was elected Junior Grand Warden, Senior Grand Warden in 1857, Deputy Grand Master in 1858 and Most Worshipful Grand Master in 1859. His was the first instance of regular promotion in the Grand Lodge of Missouri. He was inturn succeeded in 1860 by Brother M. H. McFarland.
Brother Boyd was born in Williamson County, Tennessee in 1803. He represented his county several terms in the Legislature. Just when he came to St. Louis has been impossible to ascertain. In early life he fitted himself to become a physician, but changed his course, studied law and followed that profession. During the War of the Rebellion he was Colonel of the Seventy-second Regiment Enrolled Militia, and at the close of the war was Postmaster of Springfield. We regret that it is impossible to furnish an engraving in this connection, as all likenesses of him were destroyed by fire. Neither can we give anything relative to his early Masonic history, save what is above written in connection with the Grand Lodge.
He was High Priest of his Chapter. He was first recognized in the Grand Chapter Royal Arch Masons in 1857, when he was elected Grand King. In 1858 he was chosen Most Excellent Grand High Priest and re-elected in 1859.
A well-known friend writes as follows: "Brother Boyd was a handsome man over six feet tall, of massive and splendid physique, with dark,brown hair, broad forehead, blue eyes and an effeminate complexion. He had a musical, persuasive voice." He died at Springfield, November 30, 1866, in the sixty-third year of his age.
