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Among the professional men of Fort Worth who are undeniably
worthy of mention in a historical and biographical work of the nature
of this publication, few there are more prominent and successful than
Dr. Frank Douglas Boyd, of the firm of Drs. Boyd & Head,
specialists in treatment of diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat.
Dr. Boyd has been engaged in practice in Fort Worth since 1896, and
his success has been of the highest order, and of which he may well be
proud. His achievements have brought him a high place in local and
state medical circles, and he is on the whole one of the prominent men
of the city.
Born at Rusk, Cherokee county, Texas, on December 24, 1867, Dr.
Boyd is the son of John A. and Amy E. (Harrison) Boyd, both natives of
Texas. The mother, it may be stated here, was a close relative of the
late President William Henry Harrison. Dr. Boyd received his education
in the public schools of Rusk and the Agricultural and Mechanical
College of Bryan, Texas, followed by a course of training in the
University of Louisville, Kentucky, from which he was graduated in
1890 with the degree of M. D. Dr. Boyd is also a postgraduate student
of the New York Post-Graduate Medical School and of the Chicago
Medical College, at the latter named place being associated with Dr.
E. Fletcher Ingals, the well known specialist in diseases of the nose,
throat and chest. Following this special training, Dr. Boyd went to
San Antonio, where he carried on a practice for five years, limiting
himself to treatment of diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat, and
then coming to Fort Worth, where he joined forces with Dr. Head,
another specialist along similar lines, and today this firm stands at
the head of their profession in the entire Southwest, deriving
patients from all over the same and Mexico.
Dr. Boyd has taken post-graduate courses at Vienna, Berlin and
London, and goes abroad for study on an average every four years. He
is a member of the American Medical Association and an honorable
member of many medical societies throughout the Southwest. He is a
Fellow of the American Academy of Ophthalmology and Oto-laryngology.
He is chairman of the Board of Council of the State Medical
Association and will be president of same with the year 1914, there
being no opposition to him for that honor. He is a Scottish Rite Mason
and further fraternizes with the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks.
He also has membership in the Fort Worth Country Club, and with his
family has a most excellent social standing. He is a member of the
Baptist church and deacon in same for over twenty years.
Dr.
Boyd was married April 21, 1892, to Miss Mattie E. Callahan, the
daughter of James E. Callahan, of Louisville, Kentucky, long prominent
as a grain merchant of that place, where he owns the largest grain
elevators in the state of Kentucky. Dr. and Mrs. Boyd became the
parents of three children, two of whom are deceased. Frank Douglas
Boyd died in 1903, and John A. Boyd passed away in 1909. The one child
surviving is Miss Amy Boyd. --
A History of Texas and Texans, Volume 3, Francis
White Johnson, 1914
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