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Bessie Ginther 1888 - 1974

Bessie Ginther of West Salem, Edwards County, Illinois was born on January 22, 1888, and died at age 86 years old in January 1974.
Bessie Ginther
West Salem, Edwards County, Illinois 62476
January 22, 1888
January 1974
Female
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    January 22, 1888
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    1974

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    January 1974
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    Bessie Ginther lived 10 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 85.
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In 1888, in the year that Bessie Ginther 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 1920, by the time she was 32 years old, on January 1, over 6000 people were arrested and put in prison because they were suspected of being communists. . Many had to be released in a few weeks and only 3 guns were found in their homes. The U.S. Department of Justice "red hunt" netted thousands of "radicals" and suspected "communists" and aliens were deported. But the "hunt" ended after Attorney General Palmer forecast a massive radical uprising on May Day and the day passed without incident.
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