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Louise Spurlock 1887 - 1982

Louise Spurlock (1887 - 1982)
Full legal name
Louise Spurlock
Last Known Residence
Huntington, Wayne County, West Virginia 25704
Born
September 22, 1887
Death
May 1982
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Louise Spurlock of Huntington, Wayne County, West Virginia was born on September 22, 1887, and died at age 94 years old in May 1982.

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Huntington, Wayne County, West Virginia 25704
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September 22, 1887
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Louise Spurlock passed away at age 94 years old in May 1982. Louise Spurlock of Huntington, Wayne County, West Virginia was born on September 22, 1887.

Average Age & Life Expectancy

Louise Spurlock lived 23 years longer than the average Spurlock family member when she died at the age of 94.
The average age of a Spurlock family member is 71.
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1887 - 1982 World Events

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In 1887, in the year that Louise Spurlock was born, on January 20th, the US Senate gave the US Navy the right to lease Pearl Harbor as a naval base. Pearl Harbor is on the island of Oahu, a part of the Hawaiian Islands. The Navy was given direction to maintain "a coaling and repair station" at the harbor.

In 1909, when she was 22 years old, the New York Times published the first movie review. It was a report on D.W. Griffith's movie "Pippa Passes" also called "The Song of Conscience", a silent film. The review said that this work was moving away from "lurid material that attracted the wrath of censors and concerned citizens and toward more respectable ends. The movie was the story of a young female factory worker, on her day off, wandering and singing - thus changing the hearts of those around her towards good.

In 1923, Louise was 36 years old when Harlem's Cotton Club opened in New York City. Owned by a bootlegger and gangster, it was a 700 seat speakeasy that catered to a "white only" clientele. But most of the entertainers were African-American and featured some of the best entertainers of the time such as Lena Horne, the Nicholas Brothers, Ethel Waters, and Cab Calloway.

In 1940, she was 53 years old when on November 5th, President Franklin Roosevelt was elected to a third term, defeating Wendell Willkie of Indiana (a corporate lawyer). Roosevelt running for a third term was controversial. But the U.S. was emerging from the Great Recession and he promised that he would not involve the country in any foreign war (which of course changed when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor). Roosevelt defeated Willkie in the popular vote by 54.7 to 44.8% and in the Electoral College 449 to 82.

In 1982, in the year of Louise Spurlock's passing, on June 30th, time ran out on the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA). The Amendment had only received 35 of the necessary 38 state ratifications. First sent to the states in 1972, the Amendment stated that "Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex".

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