Studio portrait of James Robert Boyd (right) seated on a bent-wood garden bench in casual attire, with a friend seated on a bent-wood chair and holding a piece of paper with "horseman" written on it. Robert James Boyd was born in North Carolina. He married Emma P. Barrett in Los Angeles and in 1910 they lived at 1242 El Molino (now 1242 Kenmore Ave.) in Los Angeles, next to 1244 El Molino, where Emma had lived with her family before she was married from as early as 1900. By 1917, he is reported as working in a barbershop in Riverside city directories from 1917 to 1947. According to Miriam Matthews, he owned the barbershop. Robert and Emma had four children: Barrett, Willis, Helen and Edward.
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African American businesspeople African American barbers Boyd, Robert James, 1860-1952
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