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Cornelia Wagstaff 1896 - 1976

Cornelia Wagstaff (1896 - 1976)
Full legal name
Cornelia Wagstaff
Last Known Residence
Vergennes, Addison County, Vermont 05491
Born
August 2, 1896
Death
May 1976
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Cornelia Wagstaff of Vergennes, Addison County, Vermont was born on August 2, 1896, and died at age 79 years old in May 1976.

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Vergennes, Addison County, Vermont 05491
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Cornelia Wagstaff passed away at age 79 years old in May 1976. Cornelia Wagstaff of Vergennes, Addison County, Vermont was born on August 2, 1896.

Average Age & Life Expectancy

Cornelia Wagstaff lived 11 years longer than the average Wagstaff family member when she died at the age of 79.
The average age of a Wagstaff family member is 68.
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1896 - 1976 World Events

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In 1896, in the year that Cornelia Wagstaff was born, in April, the first study on global warming due to CO2 - carbon dioxide - in the atmosphere was published by Swedish scientist Svante Arrhenius. Arrhenius concluded that human activity due to the Industrial Revolution would amplify CO2 in the atmosphere, causing a greenhouse effect. His conclusions have been extensively tested in the ensuing 100+ years and are still seen to hold true.

In 1924, when she was 28 years old, J. Edgar Hoover, at the age of 29, was appointed the sixth director of the Bureau of Investigation by Calvin Coolidge (which later became the Federal Bureau of Investigation). The Bureau had approximately 650 employees, including 441 Special Agents. A former employee of the Justice Department, Hoover accepted his new position on the proviso that the bureau was to be completely divorced from politics and that the director report only to the attorney general.

In 1936, by the time she was 40 years old, on November 3rd, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was reelected to a second term. He ran against Republican Governor Alf Landon (Kansas), defeating Landon in the popular vote by 60.8% to 36.5%. Vermont and Maine were the only two states in which Landon won. John Nance Garner IV became the Vice-President in this election.

In 1957, she was 61 years old when on September 24th, the "Little Rock Nine" (nine African-American students) entered Little Rock High School. Arkansas Gov. Orval Faubus had previously prevented the students from entering the school at the beginning of the term with the Arkansas National Guard - they blocked the door. President Eisenhower ordered federal troops - the 101st Airborne Division of the United States Army - to guard the students and allow them entry.

In 1976, in the year of Cornelia Wagstaff's passing, on August 4th, a mysterious illness struck an American Legion convention in Philadelphia. Within a week, 25 people had died and 130 people had been hospitalized. It was the first known instance of what came to be called "Legionnaires Disease."

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