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Elsie Briggs 1916 - 1993

Elsie Briggs of Marshalltown, Marshall County, IA was born on July 8, 1916, and died at age 77 years old on December 3, 1993.
Elsie Briggs
Marshalltown, Marshall County, IA 50158
July 8, 1916
December 3, 1993
Female
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Elsie Briggs' History: 1916 - 1993

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  • 07/8
    1916

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    July 8, 1916
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  • 12/3
    1993

    Death

    December 3, 1993
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    Elsie Briggs lived 4 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 77.
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In 1916, in the year that Elsie Briggs was born, visiting nurse Margaret Sanger opened the first birth control clinic in the U.S. at 46 Amboy St. in Brooklyn New York. Ten days after the clinic opened, Sanger was arrested for "violating laws against giving out birth control information" which was defined as obscenity. The clinic was not handing out birth control - just information about sex and birth control methods. (The Comstock law categorized information about abortion, family planning, and contraception as “obscene”.) The clinics and organizations that Sanger established later evolved into the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.
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In 1921, at the age of merely 5 years old, Elsie was alive when hugely popular Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, silent film star, was arrested for rape and manslaughter after an actress died following a party at his house. He was acquitted after three trials and the jury wrote a formal letter apologizing for the charges, but his career never recovered. His films were at first banned - the ban was lifted after a year - and he was mostly ostracized by the community. He died at 46..
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