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Kathryn Hess 1886 - 1973

Kathryn Hess of Chicago, Cook County, Illinois was born on September 26, 1886, and died at age 86 years old in May 1973.
Kathryn Hess
Chicago, Cook County, Illinois 60614
September 26, 1886
May 1973
Female
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    1886

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    September 26, 1886
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    1973

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    May 1973
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    Kathryn Hess lived 12 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 86.
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In 1886, in the year that Kathryn Hess was born, on June 13th, the "Great Vancouver Fire" destroyed most of Vancouver, British Columbia. A small brush fire got out of control and spread to the rest of the city. Dozens of people died and it was only after the fire that money was raised for a fire hall. The local Squamish tribe rescued people who had jumped into bodies of water to escape the conflagration.
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In 1933, she was 47 years old when the day after being inaugurated, the new President, Franklin Roosevelt, declared a four-day bank holiday to stop people from withdrawing their money from shaky banks (the bank run). Within 5 days of his administration, the Emergency Banking Act was passed - reorganizing banks and closing insolvent ones. In his first 100 days, he asked Congress to repeal Prohibition (which they did), signed the Tennessee Valley Authority Act, signed legislation that paid commodity farmers to leave their fields fallow, thus ending surpluses and boosting prices, signed a bill that gave workers the right to unionize and bargain collectively for higher wages and better working conditions as well as suspending some antitrust laws and establishing a federally funded Public Works Administration, and won passage of 12 other major laws that helped the economy.
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