The History of the Yakima Valley, Washington, Comprising Yakima, Kittitas and
Benton Counties, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1919, Volume II, page 1074 

JOHN BOYSON.

John Boyson, who has retired from ranching and now makes his home in Yakima, was
born in Denmark, June 29, 1854, a son of John and Christina (Christenson)
Boyson, both of whom have passed away. The son acquired a public school
education in his native country and in 1878 came to the United States, working
first in the lumber woods of Wisconsin and afterward in the iron mines in
Michigan. In 887 he arrived in Tacoma, Washington, and soon afterward secured
employment in a sawmill at Buckley and at Hot Springs. He next located at
Kingsley, Washington, but afterward returned to Buckley and in 1893 came to
Yakima. Soon afterward he rented a ranch on the Selah and later worked for the
Yakima Power & Light Company. He was subsequently connected with the Pacific
Power & Light Company as chief engineer and while thus engaged he purchased a
ranch a mile west of Wiley City. This he owned and developed until 1917, when he
purchased another ranch seven miles west of Yakima, on which he lived until
November, 1918, when he sold the property and took up his abode in the city,

On the l0th of September, 1880, Mr. Boyson was married to Miss Ella Martin, a
native of Denmark and a daughter of Benjamin and Christina Martin. She cattle to
the United States in her girlhood and in Michigan gave her hand in marriage to
Mr. Boyson. They have a daughter, Hannah Christina, now the wife of Edmond
Sargent, a resident of Peoria, Illinois, and a minister of the Seventh Day
Adventist church in this city. Mr. and Mrs. Sargent now have a daughter and a
son.

Mr. and Mrs. Boyson are also members	of the Seventh Day Adventist church, and
fraternally he is connected with the Brotherhood of American Yeomen. His
political allegiance is given to the republican party. Mrs. Boyson is a trained
nurse by profession and for fifteen years engaged in nursing in Yakima under Dr.
Fletcher and Dr. Baker. As the years have passed and Mr. Boyson has carefully
directed his business interests he has won success and is today one of the men
of affluence in Yakima. His experiences have been broad and varied. Born and
reared in Denmark, he spent two years in France before coming to the United
States and has resided in various sections of this country. At all times tie has
been actuated by a laudable ambition to advance and he has won his way steadily
upward step by step, gaining that prosperity which is the legitimate reward of
labor.

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Submitted to the Washington Bios Project in January 2008 by Jeffrey L. Elmer.
Submitter has no additional information about the subject of this article.