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Edith Halcomb 1896 - 1975

Edith Halcomb (1896 - 1975)
Full legal name
Edith Halcomb
Last Known Residence
Brooklyn, Kings County, New York 11234
Born
November 9, 1896
Death
April 1975
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Edith Halcomb of Brooklyn, Kings County, New York was born on November 9, 1896, and died at age 78 years old in April 1975.

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Brooklyn, Kings County, New York 11234
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November 9, 1896
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Edith Halcomb passed away at age 78 years old in April 1975. Edith Halcomb of Brooklyn, Kings County, New York was born on November 9, 1896.

Average Age & Life Expectancy

Edith Halcomb lived 8 years longer than the average Halcomb family member when she died at the age of 78.
The average age of a Halcomb family member is 70.
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1896 - 1975 World Events

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In 1896, in the year that Edith Halcomb was born, on August 17th, the first pedestrian v car fatality occurred in Great Britain. Bridget Driscoll, age 44, was walking with her family on the grounds of The Crystal Palace in London when she was hit by a car driven by Arthur James Edsall. Edsall claimed to be going 4.5 mph and Driscoll's death was ruled an "accidental death" after an inquest.

In 1906, she was just 10 years old when author Upton Sinclair exposed the public-health threat of the meat-packing industry in his book The Jungle. While his intent was to show the lives of exploited lives of immigrants in Chicago and other industrialized cities, most people were horrified by how the meat that ended up on their tables was handled. There was such an outcry that legislation was passed to regulate meat packing. Sinclair said " "I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach."

In 1919, when she was 23 years old, in Norfolk Virginia, the first rotary dial telephones were introduced by the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T), making it easier to make a call without an operator.

In 1954, by the time she was 58 years old, on May 17th, the Supreme Court released a decision on Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka. The ruling stated that state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students was unconstitutional thus paving the way for integration in schools.

In 1975, in the year of Edith Halcomb's passing, in January, Popular Mechanics featured the Altair 8800 on it's cover. The Altair home computer kit allowed consumers to build and program their own personal computers. Thousands were sold in the first month.

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