- Date Of Death: December 31, 1919
- State: Idaho
Boyd L Woolstenhulme was born December 31, 1919 at his parents’ ranch at Alder Creek, near Mackay, Idaho. His parents were Royal Walter and Hazel Dean Leonard Woolstenhulme. He was the sixth of eight children: Wallace Elmo, Wilma LaFern, Morris L. (Brick), Maxine, Royal Glen, Boyd, Sherdon, and Robert L. About a year after his birth, the family moved back to Oakley, Summit County, Utah, where they had lived previous to moving to Mackay. Boyd spent his growing up years in Oakley learning to work hard with the family. In the summer he and his siblings had fun riding calves and horses and camping and hunting in the mountains, but summertime was mostly for work—milking and feeding the cows, irrigating, and haying. He helped take care of the animals and milked cows, starting when he was only five years old. He attended elementary school in a three-room brick building and later completed seminary and high school, graduating from South Summit High School in May of 1937.
Some of his jobs during his younger years were getting lumber out of the mountains, working on the farm for his dad and others, milking cows, and hauling milk to the creamery. Later, he had several different jobs including helping build the reservoir in Beaver Creek Canyon, working on the Duchesne Tunnel, timbering with his brother Elmo, and working in the silver mines at Park City, Utah.
