Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 4th ed., 
1887 Boyle Co.

GEN. JEREMIAH TILFORD BOYLE was born in Mercer (now Boyle) County, Ky.,
in May, 1818, and was the son of Chief Justice John Boyle, so long 
recognized as one of the leading jurists of the State. His mother was 
a Miss Tilford, a name well known in Kentucky. He was educated with 
great care, and completed his course at the College of New Jersey, 
Princeton, from which well known institution he was graduated. 
Subsequent to that time he attended the law department of Transylvania 
University, Lexington, Ky., whence he was also graduated in due course 
of time. He at first located in the practice of his profession at 
Harrodsburg, but after the county of Boyle was set off and Danville 
became the county seat, he removed to that place, where he engaged 
successfully in practice until 1861.  He was appointed commonwealth's 
attorney, but resigned that position in order to attend to his private 
practice. He attained distinction at the bar, and was recognized as an 
eloquent advocate and an excellent counselor.  Some years after removing
to Danville he married a daughter of Hon. Simon Anderson of Garrard 
County, and subsequently engaged in business with his brother-in-law, 
William C. Anderson, of Danville, who at one time represented his 
district in Congress.  In the great contest preparatory to the election 
of delegates to frame a new constitution for the State in 1849, Gen. 
Boyle advocated with great zeal the emancipation of the slaves, and 
both by his pen and eloquence before the people, proved himself one of
the ablest champions of that cause in the State.  When the civil war
commenced, he gave his support to the cause of the Union, and raised a
regiment for service.  For meritorious conduct in the field, in 1862 he
was promoted to brigadier-general, and was soon after placed in command 
of the department of Kentucky, assuming the direction of military 
affairs in the State.  This position, peculiarly trying to a native 
Kentuckian, owing to his love of justice and great magnanimity of 
character, he discharged with singular faithfulness and met the approval
of the Government and of those in the State who appreciated the motives
of his action.  He participated in the battle of Shiloh, commanding a 
brigade in Nelson's division.  After having served with distinction for
several years in the department of Kentucky, he resigned, being 
actuated by the unpleasant nature of the duties which his command 
imposed upon him.  He was a man of untiring energy, and everything 
calculated to promote the material prosperity of the State found in
him an able and willing advocate.  He was the first person to urge the 
construction of street railways in Louisville, and, perhaps, owing to 
him that the city now possesses it's excellent system of roads.  He was 
president of and organized the original company, and under his 
direction the first street railroad was built in that city, and that 
at a time when almost insurmountable difficulties surrounded the 
undertaking.  Soon after the close of the civil war, Gen. Boyle took 
hold of the Edgefield, Henderson & Nashville Railroad, which had been 
dragging along with great difficulty for several years, and with his 
usual zeal imparted life to the enterprise.  He visited Europe to 
negotiate with the French stockholders of the road, and so successful 
was he that he was able to prosecute the work with great rapidity to 
its completion.  He subsequently devoted himself with great vigor to 
the inauguration of the narrow-guage system  in Kentucky, and by his 
presentation of the subject gained the favorable attention of the 
public.  He was a man of great firmness of character, engaged with 
enthusiasm in whatever he undertook, and seldom failed in his purpose.  
He had good administrative ability, was generous and charitable to a 
fault, assisting unsparingly those in need.  In his private life he 
was strongly attached to the domestic circle, and was a consistent 
profossor of Christianity.  He died in Louisville, Ky., July 28, 1871,
leaving a wife and seven children.  His eldest son, Col. Wm. O. Boyle,
known as the "Boy Major," served with distinction in the war, and
fell at the head of his brigade at the battle of Marion, Tenn., 
December 18, 1864.  He was the most youthful officer of his rank in the
Federal Army.

Boyle Tilford Anderson Nelson
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Mercer-KY Garrard-KY NJ TN France

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