Biography

04/04/1875 - 09/11/1939

BOYD, Harrison Null, a Representative from Westmoreland County; born, Uniontown, Fayette County, Pa. on April 4, 1875; attended, Redstone Academy; attended, Cheltenham Military Academy; mining engineer; superintendent and manager, coal and coke operations, H.C. Frirk Coke Company, Fayette County (30 years); engaged, general contracting business (3 years); school director, German Township, Fayette County (2 years); automobile salesman; unsuccessful campaign, United States Congress (1922); elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives as a Democrat in 1932 and 1934; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1936); died, September 11, 1939 in Mount Pleasant, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania; interred, Greensburg Cemetery, Greensburg, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania.