When Nancy Louise Boynton was born on 21 October 1915, in Mount Vernon, Skagit, Washington, United States, her father, George Elwood Boynton, was 33 and her mother, Elsa Leona Siemons, was 25. She married William Jackson Ford on 4 September 1936, in Mount Vernon, Skagit, Washington, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She lived in Needles Judicial Township, San Bernardino, California, United States in 1940 and Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1950. She died on 22 July 2009, in Poulsbo, Kitsap, Washington, United States, at the age of 93, and was buried in Mount Vernon Cemetery, Mount Vernon, Skagit, Washington, United States.
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Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.
The Boeing Aircraft was named and created by William Boeing. The first two planes were Bluebill and Mallard and the first flight was July 15, 1916. Boeing aircrafts made their debut during WWI.
Galloping Gertie is the reference used to describe the Tacoma Narrows Bridge. It opened on July 1, 1940 four months later it no longer existed. On November 7, 1940 the wind gusts came up to 40 miles an hour causing the bridge to twist and vibrate violently before it collapsed into Puget Sound. The only victim of the bridge collapsing was a three-legged paralyzed dog named Tubby whose owner tried to rescue him from the car but he wouldn’t go with him.
English: habitational name from a place in East Yorkshire named Boynton, from the Old English personal name Bōfa + the connective particle -ing- denoting association + tūn ‘settlement’. Alternatively, the name may have arisen from Boyton in Wiltshire (recorded in Domesday Book as Boientone) or from Boyington Court in Kent (recorded in 1207 as Bointon), both of which are named with the Old English personal name Boia + tūn ‘settlement’.
History: John Boynton emigrated from England to Salem, MA, 1638.
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