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Alva Torstensen 1890 - 1980

Alva Torstensen of Chicago, Cook County, Illinois was born on October 7, 1890, and died at age 89 years old in May 1980.

Alva Torstensen
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Chicago, Cook County, Illinois 60634
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October 7, 1890
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In 1890, in the year that Alva Torstensen was born, on June 1st, the U.S. Census Bureau started tabulating census returns with punch cards. Herman Hollerith's "tabulating machine" used punch cards to more quickly compute census information, taking the time to get census results from 8 years in 1880 to 6 years for the 1890 census. Hollerith's company eventually became IBM.
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In 1928, Alva was 38 years old when aviatrix Amelia Earhart, age 31, became the first woman to fly solo across North America and back in August. In June, she had been part of a 3 man crew that flew the Atlantic Ocean but since she had no instrument training, she couldn't fly the plane - she kept the flight log. The North American flight became one of her many "firsts" as a female pilot.
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Torstensen, Pauline (Mar 17, 1922 - Feb 1987) Torstensen, Elly (Sep 26, 1908 - Dec 21, 1988) Torstensen, Ralph (Aug 28, 1927 - Nov 1980) Torstensen, Charlotte (Sep 11, 1931 - Jan 1974) Torstensen, Ralph (Aug 11, 1899 - Aug 1974) Torstensen, Electa (Oct 26, 1896 - May 1986) Torstensen, Anna (Jun 10, 1889 - Mar 1980) Torstensen, Reidar (Mar 7, 1897 - Sep 1975) Torstensen, Edith (Oct 29, 1919 - Aug 18, 2005) Torstensen, Lars (Nov 21, 1890 - Feb 1971)
Torstensen, Harold (Mar 11, 1907 - Jun 1986) Torstensen, Lilly (Aug 9, 1898 - Aug 1976) Torstensen, Helen (Nov 11, 1898 - Mar 1973) Torstensen, Gordon (Apr 7, 1923 - May 1971) Torstensen, Fred (Jan 4, 1920 - May 2, 1991) Torstensen, Alvina (Jan 24, 1901 - Sep 1971) Torstensen, Reidar (Mar 2, 1901 - Nov 1982) Torstensen, Gordon (Nov 23, 1945 - May 27, 1996) Torstensen, William (Aug 24, 1947 - Apr 1971) Torstensen, Selma (Sep 24, 1923 - Aug 1972)
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