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Grace Sjoerdsma 1899 - 1987

Grace Sjoerdsma of Chicago, Cook County, Illinois was born on January 29, 1899, and died at age 88 years old in July 1987.
Grace Sjoerdsma
Chicago, Cook County, Illinois 60660
January 29, 1899
July 1987
Female
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    1899

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    January 29, 1899
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    1987

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    July 1987
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    Grace Sjoerdsma lived 16 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 88.
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In 1899, in the year that Grace Sjoerdsma was born, on February 4th, the Philippine–American War began. The Philippines objected to the Treaty of Paris, signed in 1898, that transferred possession of the Philippines from Spain to the U.S. Filipinos began a fight for independence and fighting between U.S. forces and those of the Philippine Republic broke out. On June 2nd, the Philippines officially declared war on the United States.
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In 1942, by the time she was 43 years old, on February 19th, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066. This authorized the Secretary of War to "prescribe certain areas as military zones." On March 21st, he signed Public Law 503 which was approved after an hour discussion in the Senate and 30 minutes in the House. The Law provided for enforcement of his Executive Order. This cleared the way for approximately 120,000 men, women, and children of Japanese ancestry to be evicted from the West Coast and to be held in concentration camps and other confinement sites across the country. In Hawaii, a few thousand were detained. German and Italian Americans in the U.S. were also confined.
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