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Letha Chaffin 1899 - 1986

Letha Chaffin of Rogersville, Webster County, Missouri was born on May 23, 1899, and died at age 86 years old in March 1986.
Letha Chaffin
Rogersville, Webster County, Missouri 65742
May 23, 1899
March 1986
Female
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    1899

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    May 23, 1899
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  • 03/dd
    1986

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    March 1986
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In 1899, in the year that Letha Chaffin was born, on February 4th, the Philippine–American War began. The Philippines objected to the Treaty of Paris, signed in 1898, that transferred possession of the Philippines from Spain to the U.S. Filipinos began a fight for independence and fighting between U.S. forces and those of the Philippine Republic broke out. On June 2nd, the Philippines officially declared war on the United States.
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In 1916, Letha was 17 years old when visiting nurse Margaret Sanger opened the first birth control clinic in the U.S. at 46 Amboy St. in Brooklyn New York. Ten days after the clinic opened, Sanger was arrested for "violating laws against giving out birth control information" which was defined as obscenity. The clinic was not handing out birth control - just information about sex and birth control methods. (The Comstock law categorized information about abortion, family planning, and contraception as “obscene”.) The clinics and organizations that Sanger established later evolved into the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.
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