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Henry Allen Boyd (April 15, 1876 - May 28, 1959), son of R. H. Boyd, was an African American preacher and a business man who founded the Nashville Globe.

Early Life
Henry Allen Boyd was born April 4, 1876 in Grimes Country, Texas to R. H. Boyd and Harriett Albertine Moore. He was one of nine children. He served as a postal clerk in San Antonio during his teenage years before moving from his Native Texas. Around 1896, He, his wife and daughter, moved to Nashville, Tennessee to where the family will settled. Boyd joined his father in Nashville and began working for the National Baptist Publishing Board. He became an ordained Baptist minister in 1904. When the elder Boyd died in 1922, Henry carried on the work of the publishing facility.