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Dorothy Lingham 1899 - 1973

Dorothy Lingham of Buffalo, Erie County, New York was born on April 25, 1899, and died at age 74 years old in November 1973.
Dorothy Lingham
Buffalo, Erie County, New York 14222
April 25, 1899
November 1973
Female
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    1899

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    April 25, 1899
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  • 11/dd
    1973

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    November 1973
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    Dorothy Lingham lived 2 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 74.
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In 1899, in the year that Dorothy Lingham was born, on February 4th, the Philippine–American War began. The Philippines objected to the Treaty of Paris, signed in 1898, that transferred possession of the Philippines from Spain to the U.S. Filipinos began a fight for independence and fighting between U.S. forces and those of the Philippine Republic broke out. On June 2nd, the Philippines officially declared war on the United States.
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In 1916, at the age of 17 years old, Dorothy was alive when visiting nurse Margaret Sanger opened the first birth control clinic in the U.S. at 46 Amboy St. in Brooklyn New York. Ten days after the clinic opened, Sanger was arrested for "violating laws against giving out birth control information" which was defined as obscenity. The clinic was not handing out birth control - just information about sex and birth control methods. (The Comstock law categorized information about abortion, family planning, and contraception as “obscene”.) The clinics and organizations that Sanger established later evolved into the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.
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