Walter H. Boyd, Jr. (1902-1958) was born in New York, New York, and died
in East Aurora, New York. As a child he lived for a time in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,
and around 1914 moved with his family to Buffalo, New York. He married Ruth E. Boyd (b.
Maddox) in Buffalo in 1926. He was an investor at the Marine Trust Company. They
subsequently moved to East Aurora where Boyd became the assistant treasurer of a
commercial bank. Boyd was the daughter of Florence Clerihew Boyd who was a student of
Mary Baker Eddy's, a member of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and a practitioner
of Christian Science. In 1910, Boyd's mother wrote a letter to Eddy discussing how he,
his twin sister Florence Boyd Lindsey (b. Boyd), and their younger sister Zoreldah Boyd
Thomason (b. Boyd) were receptive to learning Christian Science as young
children.
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