Governor Emmet Derby Boyle

This marker is located in the Mountain View Cemetery located at the corner of Sequioa and Juniper streets.  The marker is a bronze plaque on a granite rock on the northeast corner of the intersection.  Please check here for current hours.  

Eight grave sites to the north rests Emmet Derby Boyle (1879-1926), the first native-born governor of Nevada, serving from 1915-1923.  Born in Goldhill, Boyle was also the first graduate of the University of Nevada to become governor.  At thirty-five, he was the youngest person to hold the state’s highest office.

Governor Emmet Boyle worked on Nevada’s water laws and introduced the state’s first executive budget.  A strong supporter of women’s rights, Boyle called the Nevada Legislature into special session in 1920 to ratify the 19th amendment to the United States Constitution granting women the right to vote.

Emmet Boyle died on January 3, 1926 and is buried next to his wife Vida McClure Boyle who he married in 1903.

NEVADA STATE HISTORICAL MARKER No. 265

NEVADA STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICE

CHRIS DRIGGS, NEVADA STATE LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES

TOM SWART, HISTORY ADVOCATE

RENO LODGE, NO. 13 F. & A.M.

Photo Courtesy of Carleen Clark