[1] Jan Onofrio, South Carolina Biographical Dictionary (2000).
Father: Robert Jay Boyd
Mother: Melona Parks
Wife: Grace Wiggins Welch (m. 1927, until his death, one son)
Son: Kenneth M. Boyd
University: BA, Duke University (1925)
University: MA Political Science, Duke University (1926)
University: University of Pennsylvania (graduate study)
Professor: Princeton University (1952-)
Princeton University Librarian (1940-52)
Historical Society of Pennsylvania Librarian (1934-40)
New York State Historical Association Director (1932-34)
Wyoming (Pennsylvania) Historical and Geological Society Editor (1928-32)
American Civil Liberties Union
American Historical Association President (1964)
American Philosophical Society President (1973-76)
Institute for Advanced Study Trustee
Institute of Early American History
Society of American Archivists
Author of books:
Anglo-American Union: Joseph Galloway's Plans to Preserve the British Empire, 1774-1788 (1941, history)
The Declaration of Independence: The Evolution of the Text as Shown in Facsimiles of Various Drafts by Its Author, Thomas Jefferson (1943, history)
The Murder of George Wythe: Two Essays (1955, history)
Number 7: Alexander Hamilton's Secret Attempts to Control American Foreign Policy (1964, international affairs)
