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Adah Garcelon 1884 - 1973

Adah Garcelon of San Francisco, San Francisco County, California was born on September 25, 1884, and died at age 88 years old in June 1973.
Adah Garcelon
San Francisco, San Francisco County, California 94123
September 25, 1884
June 1973
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  • 09/25
    1884

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    September 25, 1884
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  • 06/dd
    1973

    Death

    June 1973
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    Adah Garcelon lived 13 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 88.
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In 1884, in the year that Adah Garcelon was born, on August 5th, the cornerstone for the base of the Statue of Liberty - a gift from the people of France - was laid. 120,000 people - most donations were $1 - donated to the completion of the base. An 1883 poem by Emma Lazarus was also written to raise funds. That poem was included in the base of the statue and is well known today. The most famous phrase: "Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
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In 1898, Adah was just 14 years old when on March 24th, Robert Allison of Pennsylvania became the first person to buy an American-built car. He bought a Winton, which he had seen in an advertisement in Scientific American. The Winton, built in Ohio, was made by hand and came with a leather roof, padded seats, gas lamps, and tires made by B.F. Goodrich.
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