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Francis Gowen 1905 - 1981

Francis Gowen of Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie County, Iowa was born on August 13, 1905, and died at age 75 years old in June 1981.
Francis Gowen
Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie County, Iowa 51501
August 13, 1905
June 1981
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Francis Gowen's History: 1905 - 1981

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  • 08/13
    1905

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    August 13, 1905
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  • 06/dd
    1981

    Death

    June 1981
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    Francis Gowen lived 2 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 75.
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In 1905, in the year that Francis Gowen was born, the Niagara Falls conference was held in Fort Erie, Ontario. Led by W.E.B. Du Bois and William Monroe Trotter, a group of African-American men met in opposition to racial segregation and disenfranchisement. Booker T. Washington had been calling for policies of accommodation and conciliation and these two men, along with the others who attended the conference, felt that this was accomplishing nothing. The group was the precursor to the NAACP.
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In 1929, at the age of 24 years old, Francis was alive when the St. Valentine's Day Massacre happened on February 14th. In Chicago, seven men from the North Side Irish gang were gunned down by Al Capone's South Side Italian gang at the garage at 2122 North Clark Street. Al Capone was making a successful move to take over Chicago's organized crime. But the St. Valentine's Day massacre also resulted in a public outcry against all gangsters.
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