Tulare County Biographies

EDWIN S. BOYD

Transcribed by Jeannie Miyama

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Edwin S. Boyd, proprietor of the Boyd & Boyd dry cleaning establishment, located 
at No. 530 North Encina street, Visalia, California, was born in Dresden, Ohio.  
He attended the public schools, worked in a printing office and clerked in a 
drug store.  Upon reaching manhood he went to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he 
was employed for seven years as a traveling salesman by a house selling drugs 
and surgical instruments.
 
In 1905 Edwin S. Boyd came to California and was for a time in Long Beach, 
connected with the City Dye Works, where he gained a thorough knowledge of the 
dry cleaning business.  On October 6, 1910, he opened the Boyd & Boyd dry 
cleaning works, which he still conducts, and in which he has been quite 
successful.
 
Mr. Boyd also owns a ranch of twenty acres in the Ivanhoe district of Tulare 
county.  In 1920 he sunk wells for irrigating purposes and put out a vineyard of 
ten acres.  This vineyard is in what is known as the frostless belt and when the 
vines were four years old he harvested sixty-two tons of grapes.  On the third 
picking one vine yielded four and a fourth boxes of grapes, which netted him 
$7.00.
 
Mr. Boyd is a member of the Greene Fruit Packing Company and is an elder in the 
First Presbyterian church of Visalia.  During his residence of fourteen years in 
the city he has shown himself to be public-spirited and always ready to further 
any project for the general welfare of the community.
 
History of Tulare County and Kings County, California � Kathleen Edwards Small & 
J. Larry Smith, Vol. I, Chicago, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1926, Page 
102