James Stephen Hambrook Royce (1829 - 1907)

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James Stephen Hambrook Royce & Jane Davies (Cooper) Royce

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James first wife was Elizabeth Jenkings Berry. They were married 03/10/1855. They left England as missionaries to Fiji, then to Victoria, Australia for pastoral ministry. They had six children: Elizabeth Mary Jane Royce, Frances Ellen Gough Curnow, James Hamilton Royce, Thomas William Arthur Royce, Charlotte Louisa Hitchcock and Archibald John Royce. Elizabeth died 01/06/1871. He later married Jane Davies Cooper and had one further daughter, Florence Annie Royce.

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In 1829, in the year that James Stephen Hambrook Royce was born, on March 4th, Andrew Jackson was sworn in as the seventh President of the United States. His wife, Rachel, had died 10 weeks before - Jackson blamed the slurs of his opponents for her illness and death and said "May God Almighty forgive her murderers, I never can."

In 1864, he was 35 years old when on February 25th, the first prisoners arrived at Andersonville Prison in Georgia. Andersonville became notorious for the conditions that Union prisoners endured. 500 prisoners had left from Richmond, Virginia the week before - eventually 13,000 prisoners would die at the prison.

In 1879, James was 50 years old when on November 10th, Bell Telephone and Western Union reached an agreement. Bell Telephone would keep out of the telegraphy business and Western Union would stay out of the telephone business - leading to success for both.

In 1893, when he was 64 years old, on March 4th, Grover Cleveland became the 24th President of the United States. On July 1st, President Cleveland was operated on for a non-cancerous tumor in his mouth. He chose to have the operation secretly because he didn't want to worsen the financial depression that was occurring at the time.

In 1907, in the year of James Stephen Hambrook Royce's passing, radiometric dating, a recently discovered technology that could date rocks, found that the earth was 2.2 billion years old which was dramatically older than previously thought. Later refinements and advancements in science would date the age of the earth at over 4.5 billion years.