Florence Clerihew Boyd (b. Clerihew) (1877-1949) was born in Jersey City, New Jersey, and died in Buffalo, New York. She went into newspaper work, and in the late 1890s and early 1900s was the city editor for the Jersey City News. She married Walter H. Boyd, a businessman and merchant, in Jersey City in 1902, and they subsequently moved to New York, New York, Nashville, Tennessee, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and finally, sometime around 1914, to Buffalo where they remained for the rest of their lives and together owned Boyd's Incorporated, a women's and children's clothing store. Boyd studied Christian Science with Némi Robertson, a student of Mary Baker Eddy's. She joined The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, in June 1905 and was listed as a practitioner in The Christian Science Journal from 1907 until her passing. She was also a member and trustee of First Church of Christ, Scientist, Buffalo. Boyd frequently contributed articles to both The Christian Science Journal and the Christian Science Sentinel.

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