Marmontel Boyle

Marmontel Boyle, son of Chief Justice Boyle, married, Vincennes, Indiana, Emma Jane Switzer, born Washington county, Pennsylvania, November 29, 1817, and died Vincennes, September 4, 1879. He was a merchant and possessed many popular qualities. In 1846, although a Whig, he was chosen a representative in the Illinois Legislature, from Crawford county, then strongly Democratic. Allured by the glowing reports of the modern El Dorado, he crossed the plains, reaching California in 1849, where he died, and was buried at Diamond Springs. Issue : I — John Marmontel Boyle, b. Vincennes, Mar. i, 1837; d. Hot Springs, Ark., Feb. i, 1891. He was a lawyer, profound, philosophic, and of great popularity. He was not married. II— Eliza Boyle, b. Nov. 24, 1842; d. in infancy.

Boyle Family Genealogy, p. 67