SAMUEL G. BOYD
Reaches 90 years
The Post-Star, Friday, June 16, 1933, Glen Falls, New York
Samuel G. Boyd is one of the
few residents of Glen Falls
alive today who can picture
Glen Street as it looked before
the great fire of 1864. Samuel
married Katherine TenEyck.
Born on Federal Hill, North
Bolton, June 15, 1843, Mr. Boyd
came here with his parents
in 1847. Mr. Boyd worshipped in
all five churches built by
the Presbyterians, including the
"Old white", erected about
125 years ago and replaced in 1850
by a building which burned
in 1864. Mr Boyd has a vivid
recollection of the fire which
destroyed all but two stores.
He was twenty-one and a member
of the fire department. He did
his bit manning the brakes
on a hand engine from which water
was pumped from wells. There
were no motor pumpers or high
pressure water mains inn those
days.
Mr. Boyd's home at Park and
Elm streets was a station on the
"Underground Railway" for
slaves escaping to Canada. Going to
the barn one morning, he saw
a negro hidden in the hay.
Rushing into the house he
told his mother what he had seen
and was set in a chair with
the admonition not to say a word
about it. That evening his
father drove out with a sleigh
loaded with bogs. In the load
were two slaves. They were de-
livered to a Quaker in Swanton,
Vermont, who assisted them on
the last lap of their journey
to Canada.
Few residents of this city
are as well known as this tall,
active nonagenarian, who can
remember when Glen Falls was a
hamlet of 400 persons and
the industries here were sawmills,
lime kilns, tanneries, and
brick yards.
The fifteenth annual reunion
of the Goodman family, conducted
Wednesday at the Wray farm,
Fort Ann, was in honor of Samuel
G. Boyd, the oldest member
of the family. The reunion was
called "Cousin Sam Boyd's
Picnic Day"
Samuel G. Boyd's parents were
Rufus Boyd and Eliza
Catlin
GOODMAN.
She was the daughter of Eleazar GOODMAN and
Elizabeth
CATLIN. He had brothers, Harlan Page
Boyd, Rufus
Boyd,
and two sisters; Elizabeth Catlin Boyd
and Helen
Goodman
Boyd. Samuel married Katherine M. TenEYCK
of
Saugerties, New York October
15, 1866. Their children were:
Harlan
Page Boyd, Rufus TenBroeck Boyd, Mollie Elizabeth
Boyd,
Frances TenEcyk Boyd and
Bessie Eliza Boyd.
(The
Goodmans of Bolton, New York, 1930, Edith Willoughby
Goodman
West) (Additional data supplied by Richard S. French,
10B
Pine Street, Clifton Park, NY 12065).