Robert Byron Boyd (August 31, 1864 – July 6, 1941) was an American politician and businessperson from Maine. A Republican from Augusta, Boyd served as

Secretary of State of Maine The secretary of state of Maine is a constitutional officer in the U.S. state of Maine and serves as the head of the Maine Department of State. The Secretary of State performs duties of both a legislative branch as well as an executive branch off ...

from 1897 to 1907. Boyd was born in

Carleton County, New Brunswick Carleton County (2016 population 26,220) is located in west-central New Brunswick, Canada. The western border is Aroostook County, Maine, Aroostook County, Maine, the northern border is Victoria County, New Brunswick, Victoria County, and the ...

, Canada in 1864 and moved with his family at the age of four to

Linneus, Maine Linneus is a town in Aroostook County, Maine, United States. The population was 947 at the 2020 census. It is named after Carl Linnaeus. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , of which is land an ...

in the United States. He graduated from Houlton Academy, which later became

Ricker College Ricker College was a small college located in Houlton, Maine, Houlton, Maine, United States. It opened in and closed in . It began as Houlton Academy in 1848, before being subsequently renamed Ricker Classical Institute in 1887. It became Ricker ...

as well as Colby College. He died in 1941 and is buried in Forest Grove Cemetery in Augusta.

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