When Benson William Boylston was born in 1908, in Williston, Barnwell, South Carolina, United States, his father, John Laurie Boylston, was 34 and his mother, Mary Kasiah Johnson, was 31. He had at least 2 sons with Carrie Ruth Newman. He lived in Rocky Grove Township, Orangeburg, South Carolina, United States in 1910 and Williston Township, Barnwell, South Carolina, United States in 1940. He died in 1996, in Aiken, South Carolina, United States, at the age of 88.
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Known as the National Bureau of Criminal Identification, The Bureau of Investigation helped agencies across the country identify different criminals. President Roosevelt instructed that there be an autonomous investigative service that would report only to the Attorney General.
South Carolina native, father to 13 children, and a local farmer, Anthony Crawford, is lynched on October 21, 1916, in Abbeyville, South Carolina. The lynching is followed after Crawford has an arguement with a white storekeeper.
The Star-Spangled Banner is adopted as the national anthem.
English: habitational name from Boylestone (Derbyshire). The placename is apparently from an Old English placename Bog-hyll ‘bow hill’, i.e. rounded hill, in the genitive case with -es, + tūn ‘farm, village’. This surname is now rare in Britain.
History: Thomas Boylston came to Watertown, MA, in 1635. His grandson Zabdiel Boylston (c. 1679–1766) introduced inoculation against smallpox to North America.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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