Son of John Boyle & Jane Porter Taylor

Married Arabella McKinley, 30 Sep 1865, Salt Lake City, Utah

Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia
Volume 4 Biographies
Presidents of Missions

Boyle, Henry Green, president of the Southern States Mission from 1875 to 1878, was born March 7, 1824, in Tazewell County, Virginia, the son of John Boyle and Jane E. Taylor. He was baptized Nov. 20, 1843, came to Nauvoo, Ill., from Virginia in 1845, after laboring about a year as a missionary. He enlisted as a member of the Mormon Battalion in July, 1846, and marched all the way to California as a private in Company C; re-enlisted and served another eight months, and then came to the Valley. In 1851 he went with Elders Amasa M. Lyman and Charles C. Rich to San Bernardino, and was one of the founders of that colony. He returned to Utah and filled seven missions to the Southern States, bringing a company of converts back with him each time. Elder Boyle filled fourteen missions in all. He died in November, 1908, in Arizona. (See also Pioneers and Prominent Men of Utah, p. 766.)


Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia
Volume 4
Boyle, Henry Green, a member of the Mormon Battalion, Company C, was born March 7, 1824, in Tazewell County, Virginia, a son of John Boyle and Jane Taylor. He was baptized Nov. 20, 1843, came to Nauvoo in 1845, and to the Missouri River in 1846. He marched with the Battalion to California. By re-enlisting he served another eight months in the Battalion, came to Salt Lake Valley, and went back to California in 1851, remaining there until 1857. In 1867-1869 he filled a mission to the Southern States, where he baptized three hundred persons, and brought a second company of 160 Saints from the South to Utah by rail. He filled a second mission to the South and returning he brought seventy saints with him to Utah. In all he filled seven missions for the Church. He died in November, 1908, in Arizona.

Born: Bluestone, Tazwell, Virginia
* He was married four times.
He was in the Mormon Battalion & Mexican War. Missionary, school teacher, post master, farmer, Patriarch.