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Gerald Abshire 1906 - 1983

Gerald Abshire of Pawnee, Sangamon County, Illinois was born on November 22, 1906, and died at age 76 years old in October 1983.
Gerald Abshire
Pawnee, Sangamon County, Illinois 62558
November 22, 1906
October 1983
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    1906

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    November 22, 1906
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  • 10/dd
    1983

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    October 1983
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    Gerald Abshire lived 7 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 76.
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In 1906, in the year that Gerald Abshire was born, author Upton Sinclair exposed the public-health threat of the meat-packing industry in his book The Jungle. While his intent was to show the lives of exploited lives of immigrants in Chicago and other industrialized cities, most people were horrified by how the meat that ended up on their tables was handled. There was such an outcry that legislation was passed to regulate meat packing. Sinclair said " "I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach."
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In 1928, he was 22 years old when aviatrix Amelia Earhart, age 31, became the first woman to fly solo across North America and back in August. In June, she had been part of a 3 man crew that flew the Atlantic Ocean but since she had no instrument training, she couldn't fly the plane - she kept the flight log. The North American flight became one of her many "firsts" as a female pilot.
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