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Amos J. Boyden (1853–1903) was an American architect in practice in Boston and Philadelphia from 1877 until his death in 1903.

Life and career
Amos Josiah Boyden was born September 8, 1853 in Foxborough, Massachusetts to Stephen L. Boyden and Emeline (Hodges) Boyden. He was educated in the local public schools and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He entered MIT with the class of 1874 but did not earn his SB in architecture until 1875. After two years with architects Stone & Carpenter in Providence he opened his own office in Boston in 1877. In 1879 he began an association with the firm of Cabot & Chandler, who dispatched him to Philadelphia as their local representative to superintend the construction of an office building for the Insurance Company of North America. After that building was completed in 1881 he managed their local office until 1883, when it was closed. Boyden then resumed independent practice, remaining in Philadelphia.

In 1892 Boyden formed a partnership with James Knox Taylor, formerly the partner of Cass Gilbert in St. Paul. The firm of Boyden & Taylor lasted only until 1897, when Taylor was appointed Supervising Architect of the Treasury. As supervising architect, Taylor appointed Boyden to superintend the construction of several major projects. In 1898 he was appointed to superintend construction of the new federal building in Camden, and in 1899 was transferred to the Philadelphia Mint to do the same work. He saw the building to completion in 1902, and was then appointed to superintend the Birch Bayh Federal Building and United States Courthouse in Indianapolis. During these government appointments Boyden continued his private practice and lectured in building construction in the University of Pennsylvania architecture school until his work in Indianapolis required his resignation.

In 1887 Boyden was among the founders of the Art Club of Philadelphia and in 1889 joined the American Institute of Architects (AIA). Later that year, when the AIA merged with the Western Association of Architects, he, like all members, became a Fellow. He served as secretary of the Philadelphia chapter for some fifteen years.

Personal life
Boyden was married in 1882 to Annie Lucinda Sherman in Foxborough, and they had two children. Boyden died November 28, 1903 in Indianapolis at the age of 50.

Boyden participated in the organization of and gave an address at the centennial celebrations of Foxborough in 1878 and in 1879 began the preparation of a genealogy of the Boyden family. These efforts colminated in the 1901 publishing of Thomas Boyden and His Descendants, compiled in association with his cousins, Wallace C. Boyden and Merrill N. Boyden.