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Laufey Rikhus 1894 - 1987

Laufey Rikhus of Ely, Saint Louis County, Minnesota was born on June 25, 1894, and died at age 92 years old in March 1987.
Laufey Rikhus
Ely, Saint Louis County, Minnesota 55731
June 25, 1894
March 1987
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  • 06/25
    1894

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    June 25, 1894
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  • 03/dd
    1987

    Death

    March 1987
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    Laufey Rikhus lived 14 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 92.
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In 1894, in the year that Laufey Rikhus was born, large reserves of oil were discovered on the Osage Indian reservation in Oklahoma. Previously thought to be "useless" land - not even good for farming - the tribe had bought the land themselves. The discovery of oil made the Osage the "richest group of people in the world" at the time.
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In 1942, at the age of 48 years old, Laufey was alive when 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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