♂ 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

1883


Mar 19
1883 • The Supreme Court of the United States declares part of the Civil Rights Act of 1875 to be unconstitutional, allowing individuals and corporations to discriminate based on race.

1885


Age: 1y
1885 Sino-French War: France gains an important victory over China in the Battle of Đồng Đăng in the Tonkin region of modern-day Vietnam.
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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 President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt begins a full term.

1906


Aug 29
Age: 23y
1906 • The Grand Duchy of Finland becomes the first nation to include the right of women to stand as candidates when it adopts universal suffrage.

1918


Sep 12
Age: 35y
1918 • British capture of Kirkuk
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1919


Age: 35y
1919 Female suffrage is enacted in Germany and Luxembourg.
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1922


Age: 38y
1922 • In British India, Mahatma Gandhi is sentenced to six years in prison for sedition (he serves only two).

1924


Age: 40y

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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1940


Age: 56y
1940 • In Lascaux, France, 17,000-year-old cave paintings are discovered by a group of young Frenchmen hiking through Southern France. The paintings depict animals and date to the Stone Age.

1942


Feb 17
Age: 58y
1942 • WWII: Guadalcanal, occupied only by aborigines falls to the Japanese Naval construction force deployed to construct an air field on the island.

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