Ella F. Boyd

Ella Frances Neale Boyd (born about 1855, died after March 1910) was an American educator and geologist. She was an elected member of the school board in Hyde Park, Massachusetts from 1895 to 1910.

Ella F. Boyd
Born
Ella Frances Neale

about 1855
Boston, Massachusetts
NationalityAmerican
Occupationeducator, geologist
Years active1880s-1910s
Known forFive terms on the Hyde Park, Boston school board, from 1895 to 1910
Notable work
New England geological studies

Early life

Ella Frances Neale was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the daughter of John B. Neale and Mary A. Neale.[1] Her father was a constable who was active in Democratic Party politics in Boston.[2]

Career

Ella F. Boyd was a science teacher in the Boston area.[3] She was elected to the Hyde Park, Massachusetts school board in 1895,[4] 1898, 1901,[5] 1904,[6] and in 1907. She did not run for re-election in 1910, having served fifteen years.[7]

Boyd was a serious amateur geologist.[8] She studied informally with geologists George Hunt Barton[3] and William Otis Crosby,[9] both professors at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She was an officer in the Agassiz Association and the Boston Society of Natural History.[10][11][12] She represented the Agassiz Association at the Mechanics' Fair in 1892,[13] and organized the group's geological and mineralogical exhibits for the World's Columbian Exposition the following year.[14] She lectured and wrote about geological formations in Massachusetts, in "Geological Formation of Hyde Park" (1892),[9] which was also read at the National Science Club for Women meeting in 1895.[15] She presented a paper on "Granites of Massachusetts and their Origin" at the Women's Section of the World's Congress on Geology meeting in Chicago in 1893.[16][17] She was a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.[18]

Personal life

Ella F. Neale married Frederick Webster Boyd in 1879.[1] They had three daughters.[19]

References
  1. Dedham (Mass.) (1896). An Alphabetical Abstract of the Record of Marriages, in the Town of Dedham, Massachusetts, 1844-1890: Arranged Under the Names of the Grooms, with an Index of the Names of Brides. Dedham transcript. p. 13. ISBN 9780608375311.
  2. "Death of John B. Neale". The Boston Globe. March 26, 1900. p. 5. Retrieved August 5, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. Williamson, Mrs. M. Burton (November 1898). "Some American Women in Science". The Chautauquan. 28: 165.
  4. Twenty-Eighth Annual Report of the School Committee of the Town of Hyde Park, for the school year ending January 31, 1896 (Norfolk County Gazette Job Print 1896). via Internet Archive.
  5. "Echoes of Town Meetings: Hyde Park". The Boston Globe. March 5, 1901. p. 2. Retrieved August 5, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. "Civil Service Rules". The Boston Globe. March 8, 1904. p. 2. Retrieved August 5, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. "Contests in Hyde Park". The Boston Globe. March 3, 1910. p. 2. Retrieved August 5, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. "Two Well Known Geologists". Democrat and Chronicle. November 20, 1898. p. 5. Retrieved August 5, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. Hyde Park Historical Society, Hyde Park; Davis, Edmund; Mowry, William Augustus (1892). Hyde Park Historical Record. The Library of Congress. Hyde Park, Mass., The Hyde Park Historical Society. pp. 3–11.
  10. "Admirers of Agassiz". The Boston Globe. May 31, 1890. p. 2. Retrieved August 5, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. "In New Quarters". The Boston Globe. September 20, 1894. p. 8. Retrieved August 5, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. "Natural History Society". The Boston Globe. January 6, 1887. p. 2. Retrieved August 5, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. Ballard, Harlan H. (October 1892). "Agassiz Association at Mechanics' Fair, Boston". Popular Science News: 50.
  14. Ballard, Harlan H. (March 1893). "Collections for the World's Fair". Popular Science News: 38.
  15. "National Science Club". Evening Star. January 4, 1895. p. 5. Retrieved August 5, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
  16. C., T. C. (1893). "Editorial". The Journal of Geology. 1 (6): 630. ISSN 0022-1376. JSTOR 30054883.
  17. Broadhead, G. C. (October 1893). "Personal and Scientific News". The American Geologist. 12: 271.
  18. Science, American Association for the Advancement of (1898). Constitution, List of Meetings, Officers, Committees, and Members of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Permanent Secretary. p. 38.
  19. Dedham (Mass.) High School (1889). Historical Catalogue of the Dedham High School, Teachers and Students, 1851-1889. H. H. McQuillen. p. 98. Ella F. Neale Boyd.
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