Newton Co., IN Biography

  ALBERT M. BOYLE was born in Bureau County, Illinois, February 23, 
1842, and is one of six children born to Oliver and Elizabeth (Wilson) 
Boyle.  For sketch of parents see biography of Ed T. Boyle.
   Albert Boyle was educated at Princeton, Illinois.  Oliver Boyle 
died when our subject was eight years old.  Albert remained with his 
mother working on a farm until December 5, 1861, when he married 
Charlotte M. Hook, a native of Daviess County, Indiana.  By this union 
there are six children--Marion D., Charles M., Elizabeth A., James O., 
William H and Minnie B.  Mr. Boyle rented and worked farms for two 
years.
   In June, 1864, he enlisted in Company K. One Hundred and Thirty-
eighth Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and served until mustered out at 
Springfield, Illinois, in November of the same year.  His service was 
principally in Missouri and Kansas.  
   After his return, he managed the wintering of 1,200 head of 
cattle in Putnam County, Illinois.  In March, 1865, he came to Lake 
Township, this county and bought a farm near Blue Grass Landing; 
subsequently he made two removals in same township, and in 1875 came 
to this township and bought the farm of eighty acres, upon which he 
now resides.  He has been a contractor for railroad work.
   Mr. Boyle has been Justice of the Peace in Lincoln Township for 
four years, and is a Republican.  He is one of the earliest settlers 
in this part of the county; at the time of his arrival, the nearest 
family on the East was sixteen miles distant.  

Newton County, Lincoln Township.  From A History of Warren, Benton, 
Jasper & Newton Counties, 1883. 


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