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Edward Dravis 1891 - 1974

Edward Dravis of Peoria, Peoria County, Illinois was born on May 10, 1891, and died at age 83 years old in October 1974.
Edward Dravis
Peoria, Peoria County, Illinois 61603
May 10, 1891
October 1974
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    1891

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    May 10, 1891
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  • 10/dd
    1974

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    October 1974
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    Edward Dravis lived 8 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 83.
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In 1891, in the year that Edward Dravis was born, on June 25th, in the July issue of The Strand Magazine in London, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's character Sherlock Holmes appeared in a series of short stories for the first time. Doyle eventually wrote 4 novels and 56 short stories with Holmes as the main character.
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In 1933, at the age of 42 years old, Edward was alive when the day after being inaugurated, the new President, Franklin Roosevelt, declared a four-day bank holiday to stop people from withdrawing their money from shaky banks (the bank run). Within 5 days of his administration, the Emergency Banking Act was passed - reorganizing banks and closing insolvent ones. In his first 100 days, he asked Congress to repeal Prohibition (which they did), signed the Tennessee Valley Authority Act, signed legislation that paid commodity farmers to leave their fields fallow, thus ending surpluses and boosting prices, signed a bill that gave workers the right to unionize and bargain collectively for higher wages and better working conditions as well as suspending some antitrust laws and establishing a federally funded Public Works Administration, and won passage of 12 other major laws that helped the economy.
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