DANIEL BOYER, owner of 108 acres of very valuable farming land, which is divided into three tracts, all situated in Newberry Township, Miami County, lives on a five-acre lot which lies about four and one-half miles northwest of Covington. He was born in York County, Pennsylvania, June 11, 1857, and is a son of Mannasse and Lavina (Luckenbaugh) Boyer.

When Mr. Boyer was about seven years of age, his parents moved to Ohio and settled in Darke County, and lived on different farms there. The father still resides in Darke County. The mother died in January 1903. Daniel Boyer attended the country schools as opportunity offered and grew to manhood well acquainted with every detail of farming. After his marriage, in 1881, Mr. Boyer rented his father's farm of 160 acres in Darke County, for six years. In 1887 he moved to Newberry Township, Miami County, and has resided here ever since. One of his farms, containing forty acres, is the old homestead farm of his wife and it is now operated by his son, Clarence. A second farm he has under rental, while, although practically retired, be manages the home place himself. Here he has done a large amount of improving. His fine frame residence he has equipped with a furnace and a light plant and it is one of the most modern rural residences in this section.

In 1881 Mr. Boyer was married to Miss Mary Ellen Crowel, a daughter of John Crowel, a prominent farmer of Newberry Township. They have had six children, namely: Ira Olonzo, who is in the farm implement business at Gettysburg, Ohio, married Daisy Horner and they have one child, Gertrude; Clarence Homer, who operates the old Crowel farm, as mentioned above married Florence Flory; Eva Venorah, who is the wife of Harry Christian, of Covington, has one child, Harry Gerald; John Lowell and Linus Leonard, both of whom reside at home; and Lova Catherine, who died at the age of one year, seven months and nine days. Mr. Boyer and family belong to the German Baptist Church.