Myrtle Rose Boston

Brief Life History of Myrtle Rose

When Myrtle Rose Boston was born on 11 September 1881, in David City, Butler, Nebraska, United States, her father, Orren Wilbert Boston, was 23 and her mother, Rose Geraldine Nichols, was 24. She married David Alexander Irvine on 2 December 1903, in Provo, Utah, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She lived in Modesto, Stanislaus, California, United States in 1910 and Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1920. She died on 12 June 1948, in Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 66, and was buried in Glendale, Los Angeles, California, United States.

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Family Time Line

David Alexander Irvine
1872–1944
Myrtle Rose Boston
1881–1948
Marriage: 2 December 1903
Dallis Dee Irvine
1904–1987
Demar Irvine
1908–1995

Sources (28)

  • Mertie R Bostin, "Nebraska State Census, 1885"
  • Myrtle Rose Estey, "California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994"
  • Myrtle B Irvine, "California, County Marriages, 1850-1952"

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World Events (8)

1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act

A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.

1891 · Angel Island Serves as Quarantine Station

Angel Island served as a quarantine station for those diagnosed with bubonic plague beginning in 1891. A quarantine station was built on the island which was funded by the federal government at the cost of $98,000. The disease spread to port cities around the world, including the San Francisco Bay Area, during the third bubonic plague pandemic, which lasted through 1909.

1900 · Gold for Cash!

This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.

Name Meaning

English: habitational name from the place so named in Lincolnshire, which means ‘Bōtwulf's stone’ (from the Old English personal name Bōtwulf + Old English stān ‘stone’). This has been considered to refer to Saint Botulf, and to be the site of the monastery that he built in the 7th century, but it is more likely that the Bōtwulf of the placename was an ordinary landowner, and that the association with the saint was a later development because of the name.

Americanized form of German Basten or Bastian or of some other similar (like-sounding) surname.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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