John Boring Sr

Brief Life History of John

When John Boring Sr was born on 13 July 1869, in Warrington Township, York, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, William Boring, was 39 and his mother, Rozette Elizabeth Bell, was 31. He married Nora L Drawbaugh on 23 November 1890, in Newberry Township, York, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 5 daughters. He died on 21 July 1957, in Springettsbury Township, York, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 88, and was buried in Fairview Township, York, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Family Time Line

John Boring Sr
1869–1957
Nora L Drawbaugh
1869–1953
Marriage: 23 November 1890
Rosie Boring
1892–1906
Bruce Harry Boring
1894–1981
Elsie Merie Boring
1896–1990
James Leroy Boring
1898–1976
Sylvan Edward Boring Sr
1900–1963
Mary Boring
1902–1978
Helen M Boring
1904–1970
Lottie May Boring
1904–
Paul Lester Boring Sr.
1907–2005
Boyd John Bowring
1909–1995

Sources (18)

  • John Boring in household of William Boring, "United States Census, 1870"
  • John im Eintrag für Aaron S. Manning und Elsie Merie Boring, „Pennsylvania, County Marriages, 1885-1950“
  • John Boring, "Find A Grave Index"

World Events (8)

1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment

Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.

1877 · First National Strike in U.S. Begins In Pittsburgh Against Pennsylvania Railroad

Coming out of an economic crisis, everyone was worried when cuts started happening in the railroad. They went on what would the great railroad strike of 1877.

1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson

A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.

Name Meaning

German: very rare variant, or an Americanized form, of Bohring or Böhring, patronymics from a short form of an Old Slavic personal name composed with the element bor ‘to fight’ (see Bora 1), or topographic names from Slavic bor ‘pine tree’.

Possibly an altered form of Irish Boran .

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

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