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Dewey Purkey 1898 - 1968

Dewey Purkey of Paradise, Butte County, California was born on May 19, 1898, and died at age 70 years old in December 1968.

Dewey Purkey

Paradise, Butte County, California 95969

May 19, 1898

December 1968

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December 1968

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Dewey Purkey lived 3 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 70.

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In 1898, in the year that Dewey Purkey was born, on March 24th, Robert Allison of Pennsylvania became the first person to buy an American-built car. He bought a Winton, which he had seen in an advertisement in Scientific American. The Winton, built in Ohio, was made by hand and came with a leather roof, padded seats, gas lamps, and tires made by B.F. Goodrich.

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In 1916, he was 18 years old when in June, the U.S. Congress authorized a plan to expand the armed forces over the next five years. Called the National Defense Act of 1916, the national law expanded the National Guard and Army (the Army added an aviation unit), created the Reserves, and gave the President expanded authority to federalize the National Guard. It also allowed the government to stockpile, in advance, materiel to be used in wartime.

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