The Republican., 1925-08-06
0RMER JUDGE A. HUNTER
BOYD'S ILLNESS IS FATAL
Death Came to Eminent Jurist
Early Sunday Morning at His
Home In Cumberland.

last fall as Chief Judge of the Mary
land Court of Appeals and of the
Fourth Judicial Circuit composed of
Garrett, Allegany and Washington
counties, died at his home in Cumber-
land Sunday morning at an early hour
from heart disease. Judge Boyd was
76 years old.
Although he had been in i'll health
for more than a year, his condition
did not appear to be critical and his
death was not anticipated. There was
no noticeable change in his health
when he retired to his room Saturday
night. Shortly after 800 o'clock on
Sunday mornign members of his
household were aroused and he died
at 600 o'clock.
Funeral services were held at 400
o'clock Tuesday afternoon in the First
Presbyterian church, of which Judge
Boyd was an elder and a trustee In
the absence Of the pastor, the Rev.
Dir. James Z. Moffatt, who is in Can
ada, the service was conducted by the
Rev. Harry Fulton Cost, pastor of the
Light Street Presbyterian church, Bal
timore Judge Boyd and Rev. Mr..
Cost became friends when Mr.. Cost
served the Cumberland church last
summer during the absence Of the
pastor.
Judge Boyd is survived by his wife,
who was Miss Bessie Thruston, of
Cumberland, and two sons, A. Hunter
Boyd, Jr., general attorney for the B.
& 0. Railroad, and J. Thruston Boyd,
OF Cumberland. Two daughters died
In childhood.
Judge Boyd's retirement from the
bench closed for him a service of thir-
ty-one years in the Appeals Court,
seventeen OF which were spent as its
Chief Judge. His departure from the
bench, October 81. was made the occa-
sion for testimonial meeting at An
-4poEs, when members Of the court
Mnd lawyers from all parts of the
-8tate praised his career as a jurist.
Because Of i'll health, the judge was
rot present, but was represented by
a. Hunter Boyd, Jr.
The dead jurist was appointed chief
Judge of the Fourth Judicial Circuit
in 1888 by Gov. Frank Brown to fill a
vacancy caused by the resignation Of
Judge Richard H. Alvey, who had
been named Chief Justice of the Su-
preme Court of the District of Column
b:a. The post to which Judge Boyd
was appointed carried with it the eX
officio judgeship of the Court of Ap-
peals. In the fall of the same year
he was elected to the office to which
he had been appointed temporarily to
serve term of fifteen years. At the
expiration of that time he was re-
elected.
On the death of Judge James Nc
Sherry, in 1907, Gov. Edwin Wartield
appointed Judge Boyd Chief Judge of
the Court Of Appeals. When his first
term expired he was reappointed by
Gov. Austin l.. Crothers; under a pro-
vision of the Constitution, to serve
one year until the next regular cleo
ton.
In that election Judge Boyd was re-
turned and was again designated
Chef Judge OF the Court.
Judge Boyd was born at Wlnches-
ter, Va, the son of the Rev. DIR. A.
H. Boyd and Eleanor +. (Wllllam)
Boyd. For tWeney-two years his
father was a Presbyterian minister OF
that town.
Judge Boyd got his early education
IN private schools IN winchester. At
the age Of II he was sent to Washing
ton College, now Washington and Lee
University,where ne studied two years
Next, he entered the University Of
Virginia, 1868-69, and there prepared
for the study of law.
For a year after his work at the