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Dorothy A Nelson 1911 - 1998

Dorothy A Nelson of Chicago, Cook County, IL was born on May 27, 1911, and died at age 86 years old on April 2, 1998.
Dorothy A Nelson
Chicago, Cook County, IL 60657
May 27, 1911
April 2, 1998
Female
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  • 05/27
    1911

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    May 27, 1911
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  • 04/2
    1998

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    April 2, 1998
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    Dorothy A Nelson lived 13 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 86.
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In 1911, in the year that Dorothy A Nelson was born, the Triangle Shirtwaist fire occurred, one of the deadliest industrial disasters in U.S. history. 146 workers (123 women and 23 men, many of them recent Jewish and Italian immigrants) died from the fire or by jumping to escape the fire and smoke. The garment factory was on the 8th, 9th, and 10th floors of a building in Greenwich Village in Manhattan. Doors to stairwells and exits had been locked in order to prevent workers from taking unauthorized breaks and to prevent theft, so they couldn't escape by normal means when the fire broke out. Due to the disaster, legislation was passed to protect sweatshop workers.
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In 1924, at the age of merely 13 years old, Dorothy was alive when in May, wealthy college students Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb kidnapped and killed 14 year old Robert Franks "in the interest of science". Leopold and Loeb thought that they were intellectually superior and that they could commit the perfect crime and not be caught. They were brought in for questioning within 8 days and quickly confessed. Clarence Darrow was hired as their defense lawyer, getting them life imprisonment instead of a death sentence. Loeb was eventually killed in prison - Leopold was released after 33 years, dying of a heart attack at age 66.
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