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Eugene Smith 1899 - 1972

Eugene Smith of Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky was born on February 18, 1899, and died at age 73 years old in August 1972.
Eugene Smith
Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky 40210
February 18, 1899
August 1972
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    1899

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    February 18, 1899
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    1972

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    August 1972
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    Eugene Smith lived 1 year longer than the average family member when died at the age of 73.
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In 1899, in the year that Eugene Smith was born, the meaning of Chinese "oracle bones" was rediscovered. Farmers in China had been turning up the bones in their fields for generations but most often they were ground up and sold as medicine. The chancellor of the Imperial Academy and a friend noticed, before they ground the bones, that they had writing. The bones had been used around the second millennium BC for divination.
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In 1914, Eugene was just 15 years old when President Woodrow Wilson signed a proclamation designating Mother's Day, the second Sunday in May, as a national holiday to honor mothers. Anna Jarvis had championed a Mother's Day for years but Congress had joked a few years earlier that then they would have to proclaim a "Mother-in-law's Day" as well. The President who championed a woman's right to vote also created a day in their honor.
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