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Herbert Degroff 1890 - 1973

Herbert Degroff of Norwalk, Fairfield County, CT was born on March 9, 1890, and died at age 83 years old in December 1973.

Herbert Degroff

Norwalk, Fairfield County, CT 06851

March 9, 1890

December 1973

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In 1890, in the year that Herbert Degroff was born, on December 29th, the Wounded Knee Massacre occurred in South Dakota on the Lakota Pine Ridge Indian Reservation . The U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment said that they rode into the Lakota camp "trying to disarm" the inhabitants. One person, Black Coyote - who was deaf - held onto his rifle, saying that he paid a lot of money for it. Shots rang out and by the end at least 153 Lakota Sioux - some estimates say 300 - and 25 troops had died. The site of the massacre is a National Historic Landmark.

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In 1904, at the age of merely 14 years old, Herbert was alive when the United States acquired the Panama Canal Zone. Now an unincorporated territory of the U.S., the Canal Zone had been previously held by the French, who were constructing a canal. The U.S. took over the construction of the Panama Canal and it was finally finished in 1914, when it was opened to commercial shipping. The United States held the Canal Zone until 1979.

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