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Lydia Mertes 1897 - 1972

Lydia Mertes of Kingsley, Grand Traverse County, Michigan was born on April 22, 1897, and died at age 75 years old in December 1972.
Lydia Mertes
Kingsley, Grand Traverse County, Michigan 49649
April 22, 1897
December 1972
Female
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Lydia Mertes' History: 1897 - 1972

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    1897

    Birthday

    April 22, 1897
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  • 12/dd
    1972

    Death

    December 1972
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    Lydia Mertes lived 2 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 75.
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In 1897, in the year that Lydia Mertes was born, on September 21st, editor and publisher Francis P. Church responded to a letter to the editor from Virginia O'Hanlon, 8 years old. Virginia's father had told her that "If you see it in The Sun, it's so." So she wrote to the Sun, asking if there was a Santa Claus. Church responded with the now famous editorial "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus".
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In 1901, by the time she was just 4 years old, the first Nobel Prizes were awarded. Chemist and engineer Alfred Nobel, who died in 1896, had provided in his will for prizes in physics, chemistry, and physiology or medicine, who have produced the most distinguished literary work of an idealist tendency, and who have contributed the most toward world peace. The winners in 1901 were: Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen for physics, Jacobus Henricus van't Hoff for chemistry, Emil Adolf von Behring for physiology or medicine, Sully Prudhomme for literature, and Jean Henry Dunant and Frédéric Passy for peace.
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