Melbourne Parker Boynton

Reverend Melbourne Parker Boynton (November 6, 1867 – June 16, 1942) was secretary of the headquarters committee of the Illinois Anti-Saloon League.

In 1916 he was a candidate for congressman in Illinois, but lost to James Robert Mann.

[1] He was born in Lynn, Massachusetts on November 6, 1867 to Benjamin Skinner and Mary Elizabeth Croscup.

He attended American Baptist Seminary of the West in Berkeley, California.

[2] He was buried in Mount Hope Cemetery in Shelby Township, Michigan.