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held in retaliation for the arrest Of
other citizens attached to the cauS,
of the Union. He bore the illega
and unjustifyable Imprisonment con
sequent upon this seizure with al
the patience and fortitude of y
christian minister, but a fatal blow
was given to his health by the rig0rs
of his long Imprisonment. He never
enjoyed a day of perfect health after
his restoration to liberty. His val
liable ministry of three and twenty
years at Winchester was Terminated
after q mournful and protracted ill
ness on the 10th of December 1865
A funeral address was pronounced
over his remains by Rev. Joseph G.
Stiles, of Georgia, which was pub
lished in pamphlet form and is
worthy of extensive perusal.
DR.. Boyd was man of tine intel
lect He was endowed with quick
and clear perception, sound dis.
eliminating and comprehensive
judgment and especially with strong
and active reasoning faculties. He
loved study and ever felt both its
necessity and obligation. He was a
man of extensive and useful infor-
nation. On almost every topic of
literature and science, he discoursed
like one who had given exclusive at
tention to those subjects while in
his proper department of didactic
and polemic theology, ecclesiastical
history and biblical criticism, few
men in the country had made such
eminent attainments.
During his illness, the presbytery
met in Winchester, and appointed a
committee to convey to DIR. Boyd
their christian salutations, and to
assure him of their sincere condo
lence in the painful and protracted
trial which he was then enduring.
He received the distinguished at
tention with such humble and touch.
ing gratitude to his brethren.an in
such calm and assured submission to
the will of God, that on the return
of the committee the chairman rel
ported to presbytery that she had
seen Bunyan's Pilgrim on the banks
of the river, joyfully awaiting his
transportation to the opposite Shore
THOMAS MAsLIN, son of VIM. aud
Ann NJ Maslin, was born in Ger
ardstown, Berkeley county, on the
2Sth day of Octaber, 1903. At the
early age of fifteen years, and with
but very limited education he was
placed in a store at Harper's Ferry,
and continued there and in similar
situations until in 1880, when he
removed to Moorfield. In 1881 he
commenced the mercantile business
in that place, without capital, and
relying exclusively upon his own
energy, integrity and capacity for
business. In this pursuit he contin-
ued actively and successfully for a
period of thirty years. In 1887 he
was commissioned a magistrate of
Hardy county and continued to hold
that Office until the magistry became
elective. under the constitution of
1850. Under that new system he
vas elected to the same office, and
was m de presiding justice of the
County Court until the county of
Hardy was embraced in ths newly
created State Of West Virginia.
When the Bank of the Valley
rsta blished u branch at Moore.
field in 1858, he was elected
director, and made President, and
reelected every year until the b ank
was closed by the war, In 1861 he
was elected by an almost unanimous
vote of the people 10 represent the
county of Hardy in the Virginia
State Convention, called together by
the txigencies of the opening civil
war. In 1871 he was elected by
large majority to represent the cOun
ties of Hardy and Grant in the Con-
stitutional Convention Of West Vir.
GINA. He also filled various other
offices in that county-was treasurer
of one turnpike company and Presi-
dent of another.
He died at Moortield on the 2lst
of September, 1873, after protract-
ed illness Of more than year.
JOHNSTON MAGowN, for many
years one of the most efficient and
active magistrates in the county of
Berkeley. He resided in Martins
burg, and kept his Office in the frame
building attached to the Stewart
Hotel. He was man of strong
mind, with clever common sense
views Of the law. Few, If any APP
peals were ever taken from his de-
cisions, for all had abounded conf
dence in his integrity and sense of
justice. He possessed much quaint
and original humor. His memory
was stored with anecdote, and being
a baehelor, with none of the cares of
a family about him, his Office, in
which he also slept, was the regular
resort of a c0terie Of visitors during
the long evenings in winter. He
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