Laura Jowett Boyes

Female8 April 1898–1 June 1963

Brief Life History of Laura Jowett

When Laura Jowett Boyes was born on 8 April 1898, in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States, her father, Walter Jowett Boyes, was 30 and her mother, Emma Marie Quada, was 28. She married Herbert Alfred Lehrman on 28 November 1925, in Cook, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Westchester Township, Porter, Indiana, United States in 1940. She died on 1 June 1963, at the age of 65.

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Family Time Line

Herbert Alfred Lehrman
1890–1955
Laura Jowett Boyes
1898–1963
Marriage: 28 November 1925
Dawn Estelle Lehrman
1926–1991

Sources (12)

  • Laura J Boies in household of Walter J Boies, "United States Census, 1900"
  • Boies, "Illinois, Cook County Birth Registers, 1871-1915"
  • Laura Jowett Boyer, "Illinois, Cook County Marriages, 1871-1968"

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    28 November 1925Cook, Illinois, United States
  • Children (1)

    Parents and Siblings

    Siblings (4)

    World Events (8)

    1900 · Gold for Cash!

    Age 2

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

    1900 · The Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal

    Age 2

    Historically known as the Chicago Drainage Canal, the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal is a canal system that connects the Chicago River to the Des Plaines River. It reverses the direction of the Chicago River, which now flows out of Lake Michigan rather than into it. It is one of two canals that helps navigation to ships traveling between the Great Lakes Waterway and the Mississippi River system.

    1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress

    Age 18

    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.

    Name Meaning

    English (mainly Yorkshire) and Irish: variant of Boy , with post-medieval excrescent -s.

    English and Scottish: variant of Boyce .

    In some cases possibly also an Americanized form of French Bois .

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

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