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Katherine Wiggan 1905 - 1986

Katherine Wiggan of Seattle, King County, WA was born on January 20, 1905, and died at age 81 years old in October 1986.
Katherine Wiggan
Seattle, King County, WA 98136
January 20, 1905
October 1986
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    1905

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    January 20, 1905
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  • 10/dd
    1986

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    October 1986
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    Katherine Wiggan lived 5 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 81.
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In 1905, in the year that Katherine Wiggan was born, the first movie theater opened in the United States in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It was the first theater to show nothing but movies - silent films. Two men, John P. Harris and his brother-in-law Harry Davis, opened the Nickelodeon on Smithfield Street - charging 5 cents for admission. The first day, 450 people watched movies at the new theater - on the second day, more than 1500 people stood in line to get in.
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In 1925, when she was 20 years old, in July, the Scopes Trial - often called the Scopes Monkey Trial - took place, prosecuting a substitute teacher for teaching evolution in school. Tennessee had enacted a law that said it was "unlawful to teach human evolution in any state-funded school". William Jennings Bryan headed the prosecution and Clarence Darrow headed the defense. The teacher was found guilty and fined $100. An appeal to the Supreme Court of Tennessee upheld the law but overturned the guilty verdict.
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