Studio portrait of the Boyd family with the parents Robert James Boyd and Emma P. Barrett Boyd, and their children, left to right: Barrett, Helen and Willis. Robert and the children are seated on a wooden garden bench placed in front of a painted landscape backdrop. Born Emma Barrett, Emma is listed as a step daughter living at 1244 El Molino in the 1900 census. In the Los Angeles city directories of 1901 and 1903, she is listed as a laundress living at 1242 El Molino in Los Angeles (now 1242 Kenmore Ave.). She married Robert James Boyd, who owned a barbershop in Los Angeles and they had four children: Barrett, Willis, Helen and Edward. Her first child, Barrett, was born in 1904 or 1905. By 1917 the family was living in Riverside, and Emma and Robert were still there in 1947. 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 African American families Boyd, Helen N., b. 1909 or 10 Boyd, Robert James, 1860-1952 Boyd, Willis G., 1907-1988 Boyd, Barrett T., b. 1904 or 05
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