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John Ray 1906 - 1972

John Ray of Mars Hill, Madison County, North Carolina was born on January 25, 1906, and died at age 66 years old in January 1972.
John Ray
Mars Hill, Madison County, North Carolina 28754
January 25, 1906
January 1972
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    1906

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    1972

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    January 1972
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    John Ray lived 6 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 65.
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In 1906, in the year that John Ray was born, English biochemist Frederick Hopkins concluded that vitamins are essential to the human body and that a lack of vitamins caused scurvy and rickets. Scurvy and rickets were both huge problems in sailors that were at sea for extended time and the addition of vitamin C, vitamin D, and calcium in their diets helped eradicate the problem.
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In 1938, when he was 32 years old, on June 25th (a Saturday) the Fair Labor Standards Act was signed into law by President Roosevelt (along with 120 other bills). The Act banned oppressive child labor, set the minimum hourly wage at 25 cents, and established the maximum workweek at 44 hours. It faced a lot of opposition and in fighting for it, Roosevelt said "Do not let any calamity-howling executive with an income of $1,000 a day, ...tell you...that a wage of $11 a week is going to have a disastrous effect on all American industry."
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