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Gertrude Thornton 1898 - 1968

Gertrude Thornton of Ashland, Boyd County, Kentucky was born on April 16, 1898, and died at age 69 years old in February 1968.
Gertrude Thornton
Ashland, Boyd County, Kentucky 41101
April 16, 1898
February 1968
Female
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Gertrude Thornton's History: 1898 - 1968

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    1898

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    April 16, 1898
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    1968

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    February 1968
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    Gertrude Thornton lived 2 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 69.
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In 1898, in the year that Gertrude Thornton was born, on March 24th, Robert Allison of Pennsylvania became the first person to buy an American-built car. He bought a Winton, which he had seen in an advertisement in Scientific American. The Winton, built in Ohio, was made by hand and came with a leather roof, padded seats, gas lamps, and tires made by B.F. Goodrich.
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In 1909, at the age of merely 11 years old, Gertrude was alive when the New York Times published the first movie review. It was a report on D.W. Griffith's movie "Pippa Passes" also called "The Song of Conscience", a silent film. The review said that this work was moving away from "lurid material that attracted the wrath of censors and concerned citizens and toward more respectable ends. The movie was the story of a young female factory worker, on her day off, wandering and singing - thus changing the hearts of those around her towards good.
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