James Clyde Boyle (1864 - 1929)

Born 14 Nov 1864 in Bovard, Cherry Township, Butler, Pennsylvania, United States

Ancestors

Died 28 Mar 1929 at age 64 in Butler, Butler, Pennsylvania, United States

Biography

From Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania:

Dr. James Clyde Boyle, son and youngest child of Thomas and Jane (Stoughton) Boyle, was born at Bovard, Cherry township, Butler county, Pennsylvania, November 14, 1864. His elementary education was acquired at the public schools of Worth township, and he then attended the Witherspoon Institute, at Butler, Pennsylvania. He taught school for two terms in Worth township, after which he became a student at the State Normal School at Edinboro, Pennsylvania, and was graduated from this institution in the class of 1889. He spent one year in teaching and reading medicine under a preceptor, after which he matriculated at the Western Pennsylvania Medical College, now the University of Pittsburgh, and was graduated in the class of 1892 with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. For a short time he practiced in association with Dr. Beatty, at Leeper, Clarion county, Pennsylvania, then three years at Taylorstown, Washington county, Pennsylvania. In 1896 he located in Butler, Pennsylvania, and has been in continuous practice there since that time. He took a course at the Philadelphia Polyclinic College for Graduated Physicians, in 1902-03, and in 1905 took a special course in diseases of the eye, at the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital, and at the Westminster Ophthalmic Hospital, London, England. He also took a special course on the ear, nose and throat at the Central London Ear and Throat Hospital. With this fine equipment he is now considered one of the ablest specialists on these diseases in the entire state. He has established a hospital at No. 121 East Cunningham street, Butler, Pennsylvania, in 1908, and his patients come to him from all over the country. He is a member and ex-president of the Butler County Medical Society ; a member of the State Medical Society ; member of the American Medical Society; and a member of the Masonic fraternity.

Dr. Boyle married, January 31, 1894, Kathleen McNair, born in Butler, Pennsylvania, died March 5, 1913, a daughter of Thomas and Jane McNair, the former, now deceased, was a miller, and was born near Morgantown, West Virginia, the latter was born in Butler county, Pennsylvania. Dr. Boyle has one child : James Clyde Jr., born April 7, 1906.

Sources

• Jordan, John W. Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (Lewis Historical Pub. Co., New York, 1915, Vol. 3, p. 1272-1274)
• Find A Grave: Memorial #102966138

• "Pennsylvania, County Marriages, 1885-1950," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VFMB-CN3), J C Boyle and Kathleen McNair, 31 Jan 1894; citing Marriage, Butler, Pennsylvania, United States, multiple County Clerks, Pennsylvania.