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Bertha Grotrian 1897 - 1987

Bertha Grotrian of Fort Wayne, Allen County, Indiana was born on July 30, 1897, and died at age 90 years old in September 1987.
Bertha Grotrian
Fort Wayne, Allen County, Indiana 46809
July 30, 1897
September 1987
Female
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    1897

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    July 30, 1897
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  • 09/dd
    1987

    Death

    September 1987
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    Bertha Grotrian lived 14 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 90.
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In 1897, in the year that Bertha Grotrian was born, on September 21st, editor and publisher Francis P. Church responded to a letter to the editor from Virginia O'Hanlon, 8 years old. Virginia's father had told her that "If you see it in The Sun, it's so." So she wrote to the Sun, asking if there was a Santa Claus. Church responded with the now famous editorial "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus".
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In 1905, when she was merely 8 years old, 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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