Deaths, 1920 
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WILLIAM BOYD 
MEMBER 
William Boyd was born May 1, 1874. His education was obtained at the South 
Kensington School, London, and Technical College, Glasgow. Thereafter he served 
an apprenticeship and worked as hull draughtsman seven years on the Clyde, Scotland. 
Coming to this country he was employed as hull draughtsman by the New York Ship- 
building Company, Camden, N. J., eighteen months; Bath Iron Works, Bath, Me., ten 
years; Electric Boat Company, Groton, Conn., in charge of work, five years; T. E. Ferris, 
five months; and chief hull draftsman for the Groton Iron Works, Groton, Conn., at the 
time of his death. 
Mr. Boyd died August 18, 1919. 
CHARLES B. CALDER 
MEMBER 
Charles B. Calder, general manager of the Toledo Shipbuilding Company, Toledo, 
Ohio, who had followed the shipping business from boyhood and worked to the top from 
a minor position aboard ship, died January 22, 1920. 
He was born January 15, 1853, in Antwerp, N. Y. A few years after Mr. Calder’s 
birth, his father purchased a farm of 1,140 acres on Welles Island. Mr. Calder was 
brought up on the farm and went to school until he was thirteen years old. In 1866, 
when his father went into partnership with J. H. Crabb in a shingle mill venture, Mr. 
Calder went into the mill and ran the engine until November, 1872. At this time he 
shipped as a cook on a little schooner sailed by Edwin Cook. Later he went to Oswego, 
N. Y., and took out a license as second assistant engineer. 
In the spring of 1873 he helped put the engine in the Utica, built by Robert Davis 
and Z. Wright. On July 1, 1873, he left the Utica, as his papers would not permit of 
him running her. He then shipped on the tug Sarah Daly and was on her until Novem- 
