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Elma Battershill 1906 - 1979

Elma Battershill of Oakland, Alameda County, California was born on August 6, 1906, and died at age 73 years old in August 1979.
Oakland, Alameda County, California 94606
August 6, 1906
August 1979
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    1906

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    August 6, 1906
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  • 08/dd
    1979

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    August 1979
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    Elma Battershill lived 3 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 72.
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In 1906, in the year that Elma Battershill was born, English biochemist Frederick Hopkins concluded that vitamins are essential to the human body and that a lack of vitamins caused scurvy and rickets. Scurvy and rickets were both huge problems in sailors that were at sea for extended time and the addition of vitamin C, vitamin D, and calcium in their diets helped eradicate the problem.
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In 1925, Elma was 19 years old when in July, the Scopes Trial - often called the Scopes Monkey Trial - took place, prosecuting a substitute teacher for teaching evolution in school. Tennessee had enacted a law that said it was "unlawful to teach human evolution in any state-funded school". William Jennings Bryan headed the prosecution and Clarence Darrow headed the defense. The teacher was found guilty and fined $100. An appeal to the Supreme Court of Tennessee upheld the law but overturned the guilty verdict.
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