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Eleanor Bernice Day Boyce

Birth
Gold Hill, Storey County, Nevada, USA
Death
9 Jan 1951 (aged 83)
Spokane, Spokane County, Washington, USA
Burial
Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon, USA Add to Map
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Second child of Henry and Ellen Day, graduated from State Normal School, San Jose, CA in 1887. Elementary school principal in Spokane Falls, Washington Territory, 1887-1891. Taught at Wardner, Idaho, 1894-1894; Wallace, Idaho 1894-1896; and Gem, Idaho, 1896-1901. Invested in the family's Hercules Mine in Burke, Idaho, which struck ore in 1901, and its investors became extremely wealthy. She had good financial sense and her brothers turned to her throughout her life for family business matters. Her husband, Edward Boyce, lived from 1862 to 1941.

Sources/Credits: Northwest Digital Archives, Edward W. Nolan, compiler c.1987, from online access at www.nwda-db.wsulibs.wsu.edu on 10 July 2007; contributor's personal knowledge as former Wallace Mining Museum guide, Wallace, Idaho.
Second child of Henry and Ellen Day, graduated from State Normal School, San Jose, CA in 1887. Elementary school principal in Spokane Falls, Washington Territory, 1887-1891. Taught at Wardner, Idaho, 1894-1894; Wallace, Idaho 1894-1896; and Gem, Idaho, 1896-1901. Invested in the family's Hercules Mine in Burke, Idaho, which struck ore in 1901, and its investors became extremely wealthy. She had good financial sense and her brothers turned to her throughout her life for family business matters. Her husband, Edward Boyce, lived from 1862 to 1941.

Sources/Credits: Northwest Digital Archives, Edward W. Nolan, compiler c.1987, from online access at www.nwda-db.wsulibs.wsu.edu on 10 July 2007; contributor's personal knowledge as former Wallace Mining Museum guide, Wallace, Idaho.

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