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Jacob Riffel 1892 - 1979

Jacob Riffel of Berrien Springs, Berrien County, Michigan was born on March 6, 1892, and died at age 86 years old in January 1979.
Jacob Riffel
Berrien Springs, Berrien County, Michigan 49103
March 6, 1892
January 1979
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    1892

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    March 6, 1892
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    1979

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    January 1979
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    Jacob Riffel lived 13 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 86.
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In 1892, in the year that Jacob Riffel was born, on October 5th, the Dalton Gang was shot. The Gang was attempting to rob two banks - simultaneously - in Coffeyville Kansas but word spread of the robberies and townspeople with guns greeted them when they left the banks. Four members of the gang were killed - only Emmett Dalton survived his wounds and spent 14 years in prison.
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In 1906, Jacob was merely 14 years old when 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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