This Boyer is not in my direct line but I’m sharing this biography I found on him.

SOLOMON BOYER. The progenitor of the American branch of the Boyer family was Frederick Beyer, or Boyer, who emigrated from the Palatinate to America about the year 1733 and settled on the banks of the Lehigh river, a short distance from what is now Rockdale. Here he located several hundred acres of land, mostly covered with timber and underbrush, and requiring hard labor to bring it to a state of cultivation. While working in his meadow he was waylaid and shot by an Indian, who afterward scalped him in the presence of his son, Frederick Boyer. Mr. Boyer was a member of the Reformed church, and no doubt his object in leaving his own country was that he might worship God according to the dictates of his conscience.

His son Frederick, after attaining manhood, became the possessor of the homestead, upon which he resided during his entire lifetime. He married Margaret Hanky, who bore him four sons and three daughters. One of his sons, John by name, born December 26, 1781, became the owner of a farm about three miles north of his native home, on which he resided for several years. Subsequent to the year 1802, when he married Elizabeth Reber, he disposed of this farm and purchased land nearer to the home of his parents, where he spent the greater part of his life, being a farmer and dealer in cattle. After the Lehigh Canal was completed he was also engaged in running boats from Mauch Chunk to Philadelphia. After the death of his wife he resided with his son, Solomon Boyer, at Rockdale, with whom he removed to Allentown in the spring of 1871, residing there until his death which occurred February 20, 1874. His remains were interred in the cemetery attached to the Union church in North Whitehall.

Solomon Boyer, son of John and Elizabeth Boyer, was born October 29, 1816, in Heidelberg township. During his boyhood he attended school at the Union Church, which required a daily walk of four miles. His first business experience was gained as a boatman on the Lehigh and Delaware Canals, to which pursuit he devoted his energies for six successive seasons, after which he devoted his attention to agricultural pursuits. In 1842 he purchased the hotel and store at Unionville, and after successfully managing both for a period of two years he again resumed the labors of the farm. In the same year he erected a hotel and store at Rockdale Station, North Whitehall township, where he served in the capacity of landlord, merchant and postmaster. In 1857 he purchased the East Penn Furnace, which he disposed of after an ownership of six years, and for many years he was the owner and operator of various iron ore beds. In October, 1869, Mr. Boyer, his son John, and his son-in-law John H. Beck, started with several hundred hands for Texas, where he graded five miles of the Memphis, El Paso & Pacific Railroad, after which he removed to Arkansas and graded eight miles of the Little Rock & Fort Smith Railroad. After a successful business life of many years duration he disposed of his property at Rockdale Station and retired to a life of ease and comfort, taking up his residence in Allentown, where he was the owner of a commodious and comfortable home, and in which city he devoted considerable time to the buying and selling of real estate. He was one of the directors of the Allentown National Bank, and also served in a similar capacity for the Carbon Manufacturing Company. He was a strict adherent to the principles of the Democratic party, but never sought or held public office. He was an active and consistent member of the German Reformed church, in which he held the offices of elder and treasurer, and during the period of its erection he was prominent as a member of the building committee.

Mr. Boyer was married, October 29, 1843, to Lucy Ann Miller, who was born March 11, 1825, daughter of John Miller, of North Whitehall township, and they were the parents of the following named children: 1. Flora A., who became the wife of John Koch, and four children were the issue of this union–Barbara, wife of Andrew Herster, and mother of two children–Leroy, and Wilbur; Wesley P., Sadie, and Edna Koch. 2. Lucinda, wife of John H. Beck, and mother of four children–Idella, who became the wife of Robert Roth, and mother of one child– Esther Roth; Irwin, married Mary Blose, and they have one child Raymond; Gilbert S. and Edgar. 3. Anna Maria, who died in 1887, was the wife of E. R. Newbard, no children. 4. John P., who married Lydia Hunsicker, and their children are Allen, who married Miss Acker; Edna M., and Stanley S. Boyer. 5. Lewis F., unmarried, who resided in Wilkes-Barre for twenty years, and during that long period was in the employ of one firm. 6. William H., who received his education in public schools and at Kingston Business College, after which he assisted his father in the iron ore business. Subsequently he turned his attention to farming, and is now the owner of three farms near the city of Allentown, aggregating two hundred and fifty acres. He is a member of the Reformed church, and a Democrat in his political affiliations. He married Mary Herman, daughter of Joseph and Rebecca (Herring) Herman, who were the parents of three other children. namely : Tilghman, who married Annie Kressly, no issue; Sarah, who became the wife of William Wiesser, and they are the parents of one child, Paul Wiesser; and Eliza, wife of A. J. Reichard, and mother of three children-Howard, who married Dora ——-, no issue; Hattie, wife of Harry Strauss, and mother of one child, Ellen Strauss; and James, who married Ray Thiel, and they are the parents of two children–Dorothy, and Ruth Herman. William H. and Mary (Herman) Boyer are the parents of seven children–Bessie J., wife of George Peter, and mother of one child, Miriam Peter; Lucy R., wife of Howard Kramlich, and mother of one child, William Boyer Kramlich; Miriam S., Solomon J., William H., Jr., Anna M., and Christine R. Boyer. 7. Amandus O., who was instantlv killed by a cave-in while superintending the working of what was known as the Henninger iron-ore bed, in North Whitehall township, in the year 1884; he married Ella Kerns, and they were the parents of two children–Agnes M. and Marguerite I. 8. James Oliver, who died in babyhood. 9. Agnes M., wife of Harvey G. Ruhe, and mother of three children–Willard L., Carleton, and Helen Rhue. 10. Ida R., who died in 1902, was the wife of Charles M. Moss, and mother of one child. Marshall V. Moss. 11. Lillie C., wife of Milton B. Laubach, no issue. 12. Sallie J., unmarried. Solomon Boyer, father of these children, died February 17, 1897, at the advanced age of eighty years, three months, and nineteen days. His wife survived him a few years, passing away October 25, 1901, aged seventy-five years and six months.

From Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of the Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania. John W. Jordan and Edgar Moore Green, editors. The Lewis Publishing Company, 1905. Volumes I and II, page 164-5.