♂ Roy Blain Boyd

1883 - 1942

Roy Blain Boyd
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Parents
Joseph Samuel Boyd
Joseph Samuel Boyd
1859 - 1938
Clara May Lowry
Clara May Lowry
1864 - 1909
Spouse
Jennie Linn Sims
Jennie Linn Sims
1883 - 1970
Children
 

Timeline

1885


Age: 1y
1885 • The U.S. Patent Office acknowledges this date as the day Dr Pepper is served for the very first time; the exact date of Dr Pepper's invention is unknown.
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1905


Aug
Age: 22y
Roy Blain Boyd Family - 1930 United States Federal Census

marriage


Jennie Linn Sims
They married after they both turned 22 that year.
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1905 • Irish nationalist Arthur Griffith founds Sinn Féin in Dublin as a political party whose goal is independence for all of Ireland.

1906


Aug 29
Age: 23y
1906 Richard Oldham argues that the Earth has a molten interior.

1918


Sep 12
Age: 35y
1918 • WWI: The British Army's Desert Mounted Corps launches the
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1919


Age: 35y
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1922


Age: 38y
1922 • Wracked by rapid inflation and political assassinations and motivated by hostility and arrogance as well, the Weimar Republic announces its inability to pay more and proposes a moratorium on reparations for 3 years.

1924


Age: 40y
1924 Harry Grindell Matthews returns from Paris to London; he tries to use a Pathé film to demonstrate that his death ray works.

1930


Age: 46y
Roy Blain Boyd Family - 1930 United States Federal Census

residence


Leaburg, Lane, Oregon, USA ⇓
Roy Blain Boyd was a "teamster", a word for a truck driver in North America. His oldest son Charles Emilius is living with his wife, Geneva, and son, Charles Elder, on the same page.
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1930 • British airship R101 crashes in France en route to India on its maiden long-range flight resulting in the loss of 48 lives.

1940


Age: 56y

1942


Feb 17
Age: 58y
1942 • WWII: In violation of a 1940 armistice, Germany invades Vichy France, following French Admiral François Darlan's agreement to an armistice with the Allies in North Africa.

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