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Emeline L Polk (1908 - 2003)

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Emeline L Polk
1908 - 2003
Born
November 29, 1908
Death
January 16, 2003
Last Known Residence
Glen Cove, Knox County, Maine 04846
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Emeline L Polk of Glen Cove, Knox County, Maine was born on November 29, 1908, and died at age 94 years old on January 16, 2003.
Updated: October 1, 2011
Biography ID: 3167429

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Emeline Polk passed away at age 94 years old on January 16, 2003. Emeline L Polk of Glen Cove, Knox County, Maine was born on November 29, 1908.

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Emeline L Polk lived 23 years longer than the average Polk family member when she died at the age of 94.
The average age of a Polk family member is 71.
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In 1908, in the year that Emeline L Polk was born, unemployment in the U.S. was at 8.0% and the cost of a first-class stamp was 2 cents while the population in the United States was 88,710,000. The world population was almost 4.4 billion.

In 1913, at the age of only 5 years old, Emeline was alive when Woodrow Wilson became the 28th President of the United States in March. Previously the Governor of New Jersey and President of Princeton University, he was the first Southerner to serve as President since Zachary Taylor, over 60 years previous. A Democrat, he led the U.S. during World War I and championed the League of Nations.

In 1929, by the time she was 21 years old, on October 29th (Black Tuesday), the stock market crashed in the United States. Billions of dollars were lost and some investors committed suicide as a result, having lost their fortunes. This ushered in the 12 year, worldwide Great Depression.

In 1970, by the time she was 62 years old, on May 4th, four students at Kent State University in Ohio were shot and killed by National Guardsmen. The students were at a peaceful demonstration protesting the invasion of Cambodia by US forces. There had been precedent for the killing of American college students. The previous year, on May 15th, Alameda County Sheriffs used shotguns against U.C. Berkeley students at a protest for People's Park. One student died, one was blinded, 128 were injured.

In 1985, she was 77 years old when on March 15th, the first internet domain name was registered - Symbolics.com. Symbolics, Inc., a spinoff of the MIT AI Lab, was a computer manufacturer headquartered in Massachusetts. The company no longer exists and the domain name was sold 25 years later.

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