Charles Boone Medford born 4 June 1876 in Haywood County, North Carolina and died 8 December 1967 in Haywood County, North Carolina. He was the son of Lawson Henderson Medford and Laurena Elizabeth Ratcliff Medford. He married Nora Lee Henry about 1919. She was born 27 April 1892 in Haywood Co., North Carolina and died 17 July 1983 in Haywood County, North Carolina. Date of photo is not known by this submitter. Photo obtained from undentified source.
The 1800s where the end of the industrial revolution and the birth of scientists.
The Industrial Revolution began around 1760 and ran through the 1840's. Then began the birth of the profession of science. Louis Pasteur, Charles Darwin, Michael Faraday, Thomas Edison, and Nikola Te...
Photos of the 1900's which brought us from the industrial age to the technological age.
From 1900 through 1999 we witnessed the beginning of flight to a man on the moon and a Mars Rover. We went from using phones tethered by cords and computers that filled rooms, to carrying the equivale...
World War 1, the Mexican Revolution, the Russian Revolution, the Easter Rising in Ireland . . . the sinking of the Titanic and the Lusitania. Spanish flu killed well over 20 million people world wide ...
The 1960's were years of great change: Protests (Vietnam War, Free Speech, Civil Rights), assassinations (JFK, Martin Luther King Jr, Bobby Kennedy), conflict (the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Cold War, ...