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Edith Olson 1897 - 1985

Edith Olson of West Hartford, Hartford County, CT was born on February 5, 1897, and died at age 88 years old in April 1985.
Edith Olson
West Hartford, Hartford County, CT 06110
February 5, 1897
April 1985
Female
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    1897

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    February 5, 1897
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  • 04/dd
    1985

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    April 1985
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    Edith Olson lived 13 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 88.
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In 1897, in the year that Edith Olson was born, on September 21st, editor and publisher Francis P. Church responded to a letter to the editor from Virginia O'Hanlon, 8 years old. Virginia's father had told her that "If you see it in The Sun, it's so." So she wrote to the Sun, asking if there was a Santa Claus. Church responded with the now famous editorial "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus".
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In 1905, at the age of merely 8 years old, Edith was alive when the Niagara Falls conference was held in Fort Erie, Ontario. Led by W.E.B. Du Bois and William Monroe Trotter, a group of African-American men met in opposition to racial segregation and disenfranchisement. Booker T. Washington had been calling for policies of accommodation and conciliation and these two men, along with the others who attended the conference, felt that this was accomplishing nothing. The group was the precursor to the NAACP.
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