World Events

Woodrow Wilson

Lusitania Arrives in NY, Sept 1907

US enters WWI

• British ocean liner Lusitania sunk by German submarine, 1,195 perish
• World War I, which began in 1914, continues
• Germans first use poison gas as a weapon
• U.S. enters war in 1917, declaring war on Germany
• Woodrow Wilson is president
• Federal spending was $0.75 billion ($2.8 trillion = Fiscal Year 2006)
• The one millionth Ford rolls off the assembly line

Life Details

• Boyd was born September 26, 1877 in Amherst, Virginia.  His parents were Daniel & Lucy A. Hudson and he had at least 3 sisters and 2 brothers.
• He married Nellie May about 1906.  Nellie was born in England around 1887.  They had at least 3 children:

• Richard Page (born about 1907)
• Helen E. (about 1913)
• Boyd E. Jr. (February 20, 1918).  Boyd Jr. became a physician.
  

• He registered for the draft for World War I and World War II, just making the age cut off for the WWII draft by 5 months (being 64 years old).