Joseph Samuel Boyd
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Spouse
Clara May Lowry
Clara May Lowry
1864 - 1909
Children
Roy Blain Boyd
Roy Blain Boyd
1883 - 1942

1859


Oct 17
1859 Brisbane is declared the capital of newly separated colony Queensland, Australia.

1882


Jan 26
Age: 22y
1882 • The Society for Ethical Culture of Chicago – (the modern-day Ethical Humanist Society of Chicago) is founded by Felix Adler.

1883


Mar 19
Age: 23y
1883 Robert Louis Stevenson's novel The Black Arrow first appears as a serial in the British magazine Young Folks; A Boys' and Girls' Paper of Instructive and Entertaining Literature as by "Captain George North". Stevenson completes writing it at the end of the summer in France.

1938


Apr 22
Age: 78y
1938 • U.S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull rejects Russia's offer of a joint defence pact to counter rise of Nazi Germany.

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