♀ 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 • In the United States, the newly created Weather Bureau (later renamed the National Weather Service) makes its first official meteorological forecast: "High winds at Chicago and Milwaukee... and along the Lakes".

1882


Jan 26
Age: 17y
1882 • The New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad ("Nickel Plate Road") runs its first trains over the entire system between Buffalo, New York, and Chicago. Nine days later the Seney Syndicate sells the road to William Henry Vanderbilt for US$7.2 million.

1883


Mar 19
Age: 19y
1883 U.S. and Canadian railroads institute 5 standard continental time zones, ending the confusion of thousands of local times.

1885


Age: 20y

1895


Apr 4
Age: 31y
1895 • A corps of 2,350 Italian troops, mostly Ascari, are crushed by 30,000 Abyssian troops at Amba Alagi.

1900


Age: 35y
1900 • The Reichstag approves a second law that allows the expansion of the Imperial German Navy

1909


Jun
1909 • An agreement by Germany, Italy and Switzerland gives the Germans and Italians access to the Gotthard Rail Tunnel.

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