William D. Boyce

William Dickson Boyce ( born June 16, 1858 in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, † June 11, 1929 in Chicago, Illinois) was an American businessman and publisher. He continued to be the founder of the Boy Scouts and youth organization Boy Scouts of America.

Life

William D. Boyce moved after his studies at the College of Wooster successfully several regional newspapers such as The Commercial in Winnipeg or the Lisbon Clipper in Lisbon, North Dakota. After moving to Chicago, he founded the Mutual Newspaper Publishing Company with the weekly newspaper Saturday Blade. In 1894, it reached a circulation of 500,000 copies a week. Boyce earned a fortune and gradually from active economic life back to be pulled early 20th century as a multi - millionaire, inter alia, to devote to traveling and participating in expeditions. He learned during a trip to London to know the Scout Movement and founded on February 8, 1910, the Boy Scouts of America, the largest U.S. youth organization today. William D. Boyce has published several books, was a noted philanthropist and sat down by it for the rights of workers a.