Benjamin Markley Boyer

Boyer was born on January 22, 1823, in New Hanover Township, Pennsylvania, and was raised and attended elementary school in Pottstown, Pennsylvania. In 1836, he entered Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania. He transferred to Marshall College During the American Civil War, he served as captain of the 41st Pennsylvania militia, a company of volunteers established when Pennsylvania was invaded by confederate troops. He received an A.M. degree from Lafayette College in 1866. ==Career==

He returned to Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, and began the practice of law. In 1864 he was elected a Representative from Pennsylvania to the Thirty-Ninth Congress as a Democrat, and was re-elected to the Fortieth Congress. He died on August 16, 1887, in Norristown, Pennsylvania, and was interred at West Laurel Hill Cemetery in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania. ==Personal life==

He married Eleanor Pryor and together they had two children. ==Publications==

• Relief of the Famishing Poor of the South and Southwest. Speeches of Hon. Benjamin M. Boyer, of Pennsylvania, Hon. J.A. Bingham, of Ohio, Hon. Samuel J. Randall, of Pennsylvania, and Hon. Ignatius Donnelly, of Minnesota. House of Representatives, March 13, 1867, Washington: Congressional Globe Office, 1867 • Report of the Select Committee on the New Orleans Riots, Washington: Government Printing Office, 1867 ==References==