Boyden, Orvil P

Boyden, Orvil P.

a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born in Kentucky, Sept. 23, 1819. He experienced conversion in early manhood, and in 1843 received license to preach, and was admitted into the Indiana Conference. The last twenty years of his life were spent in the North Indiana Conference, wherein he filled some of its most important appointments, and in which he had no pulpit superiors. He died at Angola Ind., Aug. 22 1865, greatly beloved by all who knew him. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, 1866, p. 69.