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Alma Purvis 1901 - 1996

Alma Purvis of Springfield, Conway County, AR was born on October 27, 1901, and died at age 95 years old on November 9, 1996.
Alma Purvis
Springfield, Conway County, AR 72157
October 27, 1901
November 9, 1996
Female
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Alma Purvis' History: 1901 - 1996

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  • 10/27
    1901

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    October 27, 1901
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  • 11/9
    1996

    Death

    November 9, 1996
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    Alma Purvis lived 24 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 95.
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In 1901, in the year that Alma Purvis was born, the first Nobel Prizes were awarded. Chemist and engineer Alfred Nobel, who died in 1896, had provided in his will for prizes in physics, chemistry, and physiology or medicine, who have produced the most distinguished literary work of an idealist tendency, and who have contributed the most toward world peace. The winners in 1901 were: Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen for physics, Jacobus Henricus van't Hoff for chemistry, Emil Adolf von Behring for physiology or medicine, Sully Prudhomme for literature, and Jean Henry Dunant and Frédéric Passy for peace.
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In 1916, Alma was just 15 years old when suffragette Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman elected to the House of Representatives as a Representative at large from Montana. She was the first woman to hold an elected Federal office. Holding the office for two years, she ran again in 1940 and served another two year term. Montana had granted women unrestricted voting rights in 1914, 6 years before women got the vote nationally.
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