Shaver, F. A., Arthur P. Rose, R. F. Steele, and A. E. Adams, compilers.  "An
Illustrated History of Central Oregon." ("Embracing Wasco, Sherman, Gilliam,
Wheeler, Crook, Lake, & Klamath Counties")  Spokane, WA: Western Historical
Publishing Co., 1905.  p. 752.
 
A. W. BOYCE

     is a farmer and stockman residing at Haystack. He was born in New York
state in 1860, the son of Aldis Boyce, a native of New Hampshire. His education
was received in Massachusetts, and when eighteen years of age he came to
California where he worked for wages for a short time. In 1879 Mr. Boyce came on
to Oregon and sought employment on the John Day river, where he was engaged for
two years. Then he went to Trout creek and still worked for wages. After that he
took up the sheep business for himself and continued in the same for ten years.
Then he sold his bands of sheep and engaged in cattle raising which he still
continues. He and his wife now have some fifteen hundred acres of land and a
beautiful residence, besides considerable stock. Mr. Boyce is a man of thrift
and good taste and everything connected with his place indicates these
qualities. He has been favored with good success, owing to his industry and
careful management and, therefore, is one of the leading men of this part of the
county.
     In December, 1896, Mr. Boyce married Mrs. Mary Weber, the daughter of S. S.
Brown, who is mentioned in another portion of this work. To this union one
child, Mamie, has been born, who is six years of age.
     Mr. Boyce is a member of the A. 0. U. W. and the Artisans, while in
politics he is a good active Republican. He is a man of good standing and has
many friends throughout the county.
     To illustrate some of the hardships of the early settlers of this country
had to contend with we mention the winter of 1884-5, when the snow lay five feet
deep on the level. Before that if was the general opinion that it was safe to
run sheep without putting up hay for the winter. That was the second year after
our subject had started in the sheep business. He had as a partner his younger
brother, and out of two thousand six hundred sheep they lost twenty-two hundred.
They had no hay and no way of moving the sheep to it if they had possessed it.
In the spring they bought more sheep and paid for them all in due time, paying
ten per cent interest both on the price of them and on a large debt hanging over
the dead ones. Still they persevered and came out all right in the end.


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Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in July 2011 by Diana Smith.  Submitter
has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned above.