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Mae O Gekler 1906 - 1994

Mae O Gekler of Oak Park, Cook County, IL was born on August 11, 1906, and died at age 87 years old in June 1994.
Mae O Gekler
Oak Park, Cook County, IL 60302
August 11, 1906
June 1994
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  • 08/11
    1906

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    August 11, 1906
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  • 06/dd
    1994

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    June 1994
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    Mae O Gekler lived 12 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 87.
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In 1906, in the year that Mae O Gekler was born, author Upton Sinclair exposed the public-health threat of the meat-packing industry in his book The Jungle. While his intent was to show the lives of exploited lives of immigrants in Chicago and other industrialized cities, most people were horrified by how the meat that ended up on their tables was handled. There was such an outcry that legislation was passed to regulate meat packing. Sinclair said " "I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach."
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In 1911, Mae was just 5 years old when British physicist Ernest Rutherford (born in New Zealand), along with German physicist Hans Geiger, discovered the structure of an atom. He found that atoms had nuclei (a nucleus) and were circled by electrons, much as planets orbit the sun.
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