THEODORE P. BOYER

"GOODSPEED'S HISTORY OF SOUTHEAST MISSOURI,
Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1888."

Hon. Theodore P. Boyer, ex-member of the State Legislature from Ste. Genevieve County, Mo., was born in the county where he now resides in 1852, and is the son of Edward and Josephine Boyer. Edward Boyer was born and reared on the farm now owned by his son Theodore P. He was born in 1822, and is still living. The mother was born in Ste. Genevieve County, Mo., in 1834. After her death the father again married, and his wife also bore him one child - Laura, who married and became the mother of one child, who, though only four years of age, speaks English and French. Hon. Theodore P. Boyer in his younger days taught school for about ten years. He was justice of the peace for about eight years, and in 1884 was elected to the State Legislature from Ste. Genevieve County, Mo. He owns 133 acres of land, a portion of which was used by the Indians as a burial place for their dead. Mr. Boyd was united in marriage to Miss Matilda Parker, who was born in 1858.

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