ANA President (b. 1/29/1887 d. 6/16/1953)

Born in Cresco, Iowa. Graduate with Ph.G. from Northwestern School of Pharmacy in 1908. Married Marie Ellen Gunderson August 29, 1909. She died May 1, 1950. Married Elizabeth Marie Johnson July 8, 1950. He had no children. Incorporated Boyer Chemical Laboratory Company in 1912.

Boyer collected perfume bottles, automatic coin devices, automatic pianos, stamps and tobacco tags. He assembled an important collection of historical photographs and books on photography. He donated this collection to the George Eastman House in Rochester, New York in 1950. B. Max Mehl purchased the Boyer collection of paper money in 1928.

Boyer purchased a bank building in Chicago to house his Boyer Museum of American Curiosities. He was president of the Boyer Museum for the Preservation of American Antiquities from 1935 until his death in 1953.

Boyer was one of the founders of the Chicago Coin Club. He was president 1919 to 1927. He was life member number 14 of the ANA. He served as general secretary of the ANA in 1921 to 1922, vice president 1925 to 1930 and 18 ANA President August 26, 1932, to August 31, 1933. Boyer assembled a collection of colonial money that went to the Ludger Gravel Museum in Montreal. (Ludger Gravel was a Canadian; obit: NUM 46 May 1933 page 333-334) His second collection was paper money sold via B. Max Mehl. His library was sold at auction by Hanzel Galleries in Chicago February 23, 1954. In 2020 he was inducted into the Chicago Coin Club Hall of Fame.

profile: NUM 34 Oct 1921 p 492 (photo); NUM 45 Oct 1932 page 665 (photo)

bio: NCAB 42

obit: NSM July 1953 page 628; NUM 66 Sep 1953 page 946

bio: NCAB 42 obit: NSM July 1953 page 628; NUM 66 Sep 1953 page 946