Remember When: Plum native William D. Boyce was founder of Boy Scouts of America
William D. Boyce was a school teacher, outdoorsman, lumberjack, coal miner and an enterprising publisher. But he is best known as a founder of the Boy Scouts of America. William Dickson Boyce was born on a farm in the New Texas section of Plum Township — later to become Plum
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