♀ Clara May Lowry

1864 - 1909

 

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Clara May Lowry
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Parents
John Lowry Jr.
John Lowry Jr.
1823 - 1865
Mary Lowry
Mary Lowry
1826 - 1917
Spouse
Children
Roy Blain Boyd
Roy Blain Boyd
1883 - 1942
Mary Winona Plaster
Mary Winona Plaster
1889 - 1963
Neoma Olieta Plaster
Neoma Olieta Plaster
1896 - 1985
Siblings
Minerva Lowry
Minerva Lowry
1847 - 1881
Charles Henry Lowry
Charles Henry Lowry
1848 - 1906
Andrew Thomas Lowry
Andrew Thomas Lowry
1851 - 1930
Jaretta Ann Lowry
Jaretta Ann Lowry
1852 - 1920
Emily Jane Lowry
Emily Jane Lowry
1856 - 1940

1870


Age: 5y
Mary Lowry & Clara Lowry - 1870 United States Federal Census

residence


Union, Poweshiek, Iowa, USA ⇓
She moved to a farm in Poweshiek probably when she was very young, after the death of her father John Lowry. Her mother Mary was a farmer, with the help of her two oldest sons.
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1870 Thomas Mundy Peterson is the first African-American to vote in an election.

1883


Mar 19
Age: 19y
1883 • A consortium of flour mill operators in Minneapolis, Minnesota forms the Minneapolis, Sault Ste. Marie and Atlantic Railway as a means to get their product to the Great Lakes ports but avoid the high tariffs of Chicago.

1885


Age: 20y
1885 Sarah E. Goode is the first female African-American to apply for and receive a patent, for the invention of the hideaway bed.

1895


Apr 4
Age: 31y
1895 In re Debs: The Supreme Court of the United States decides that the federal government has the right to regulate interstate commerce, legalizing the military suppression of the Pullman Strike.

1896


Feb 12
Age: 31y

1900


Age: 35y

1909


Jun 18
Age: 45y
1909 • The White Star Liner RMS Republic sinks the day after a collision with SS Florida. In the first recorded use of the CQD emergency radio signal for a large passenger vessel, there is no loss of life on either vessel.

1909


Jun
1909 • The Anglo-Persian Oil Company, modern-day BP, is incorporated.

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