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Doris Preston 1917 - 1977

Doris Preston of Oak Bluffs, Dukes County, Massachusetts was born on August 25, 1917, and died at age 59 years old in July 1977.
Doris Preston
Oak Bluffs, Dukes County, Massachusetts 02557
August 25, 1917
July 1977
Female
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  • 08/25
    1917

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    August 25, 1917
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  • 07/dd
    1977

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    July 1977
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    Doris Preston lived 13 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 59.
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In 1917, in the year that Doris Preston was born, Russian government offices were seized and the Romanov's Winter Palace was stormed in the Russian February and October Revolutions. The February revolution resulted in the abdication of Tsar Nicholas and a coalition of the Parliament and workers parties taking control of the government. The October revolution resulted in Lenin and the Bolsheviks taking complete control.
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In 1925, Doris was just 8 years old 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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