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Edna Cotton 1900 - 1979

Edna Cotton of Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa was born on March 25, 1900, and died at age 79 years old in November 1979.
Edna Cotton
Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa 50316
March 25, 1900
November 1979
Female
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Edna Cotton's History: 1900 - 1979

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    1900

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    March 25, 1900
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  • 11/dd
    1979

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    November 1979
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    Edna Cotton lived 8 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 79.
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In 1900, in the year that Edna Cotton was born, the U.S. helped put down Boxer Rebellion. The Boxer Rebellion took place in China, where the presence of "outsiders" (foreigners) was resented. The United States, along with Austria-Hungary, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, and Russia, had business interests in China and these countries all sent troops to put down the Rebellion and keep China open to their presence and to Christian missionaries.
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In 1933, at the age of 33 years old, Edna was alive when Frances Perkins became the first woman to hold a cabinet-level position, appointed by President Roosevelt to serve as Secretary of Labor. She told him that her priorities would be a 40-hour work week, a minimum wage, unemployment compensation, worker’s compensation, abolition of child labor, direct federal aid to the states for unemployment relief, Social Security, a revitalized federal employment service, and universal health insurance. President Roosevelt approved of all of them and most them were implemented during his terms as President. She served until his death in 1945.
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