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Ada Craigmiles 1888 - 1978

Ada Craigmiles of Princeton, Mercer County, West Virginia was born on November 1, 1888, and died at age 89 years old in May 1978.
Princeton, Mercer County, West Virginia 24740
November 1, 1888
May 1978
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    1888

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    November 1, 1888
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  • 05/dd
    1978

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    May 1978
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    Ada Craigmiles lived 18 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 89.
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In 1888, in the year that Ada Craigmiles was born, on July 25th, a court stenographer from Salt Lake City - Frank Edward McGurrin - decisively beat the competition in a typing contest in Ohio. He was supposedly the only person who used touch typing and is believed to have invented the method. Touch typing is ubiquitous now - but Frank's win is what convinced everyone that the method was good!
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In 1905, at the age of 17 years old, Ada was alive when the first movie theater opened in the United States in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It was the first theater to show nothing but movies - silent films. Two men, John P. Harris and his brother-in-law Harry Davis, opened the Nickelodeon on Smithfield Street - charging 5 cents for admission. The first day, 450 people watched movies at the new theater - on the second day, more than 1500 people stood in line to get in.
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