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Cletus Bergman 1915 - 1980

Cletus Bergman of Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa was born on September 17, 1915, and died at age 65 years old in September 1980.
Cletus Bergman
Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa 50310
September 17, 1915
September 1980
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    1915

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    September 17, 1915
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    1980

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    September 1980
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    Cletus Bergman lived 11 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 64.
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In 1915, in the year that Cletus Bergman was born, the Germans first used poison gas as a weapon at the second Battle of Ypres during World War I. While noxious gases had been used since ancient times, this was the first use of poisonous gas - in this case, lethal chlorine gas - in modern war. Subsequently, the French and British - as well as the United States when they entered World War 1 - developed and used lethal gas in war.
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In 1925, at the age of merely 10 years old, Cletus was alive when in July, the Scopes Trial - often called the Scopes Monkey Trial - took place, prosecuting a substitute teacher for teaching evolution in school. Tennessee had enacted a law that said it was "unlawful to teach human evolution in any state-funded school". William Jennings Bryan headed the prosecution and Clarence Darrow headed the defense. The teacher was found guilty and fined $100. An appeal to the Supreme Court of Tennessee upheld the law but overturned the guilty verdict.
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