Her pictures were exhibited and sold in New York City and Brooklyn, where she was an exhibitor in both of their Academies of Design.

She won a number of medals and prizes in the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, in 1876, and in various State and county exhibitions.

Boyd wrote and drew for The American Garden, New York, and for other periodicals, using the signature K. P. S.

The service button that he always wore told of the membership he had earned in the Grand Army of the Republic.

Boyd died at her home in Berkeley, California on January 22, 1922, aged 85, after a month of lingering illness.