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Mae Osterheldt (1888 - 1971)

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Mae Osterheldt
1888 - 1971
Born
June 17, 1888
Death
June 1971
Last Known Residence
Glenolden, Delaware County, Pennsylvania 19036
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Mae Osterheldt of Glenolden, Delaware County, Pennsylvania was born on June 17, 1888, and died at age 83 years old in June 1971.
Updated: October 7, 2011
Biography ID: 26582371

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Mae Osterheldt passed away at age 83 years old in June 1971. Mae Osterheldt of Glenolden, Delaware County, Pennsylvania was born on June 17, 1888.

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Mae Osterheldt lived 7 years longer than the average Osterheldt family member when she died at the age of 82.
The average age of an Osterheldt family member is 75.
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1888 - 1971 World Events

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In 1888, in the year that Mae Osterheldt was born, on August 7th, the body of a prostitute was found in the Whitechapel section of London. Martha Tabram had been stabbed 39 times - a possible but not confirmed victim of Jack the Ripper. On August 31st, the body of Mary Ann Nichols was found - stabbed and mutilated. On September 8th, the body of Annie Chapman was found - throat slit and disemboweled. On September 30th, Elizabeth Stride, also a prostitute in Whitechapel, was found dead from a slit throat. Within an hour, another body was discovered - Catherine Eddowes'. She was far more savagely murdered and it is thought that the Ripper had more time with her. Then, on November 9th, the body of prostitute Mary Jane Kelly was found in a boarding room in Whitechapel. Considered to be the probable fifth, and last, of Jack the Ripper's victims, Kelly's was the most savage of his murders.

In 1929, she was 41 years old when American Samoa officially became a U.S. territory. Although a part of the United States since 1900, the Ratification Act of 1929 vested "all civil, judicial, and military powers in the President of the United States of America".

In 1952, at the age of 64 years old, Mae was alive when on July 2, Dr. Jonas E. Salk tested the first dead-virus polio vaccine on 43 children. The worst epidemic of polio had broken out that year - in the U.S. there were 58,000 cases reported. Of these, 3,145 people had died and 21,269 were left with mild to disabling paralysis.

In 1966, she was 78 years old when on September 8th, the first Star Trek episode, "The Man Trap," was broadcast on NBC. The plot concerned a creature that sucked salt from human bodies. The original series only aired for 3 seasons due to low ratings.

In 1971, in the year of Mae Osterheldt's passing, in March, Congress passed the Twenty-sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which lowered the voting age to 18 (from 21). It was a response to the criticism that men could fight at 18, but not vote for the policies and politicians who sent them to war. The states quickly ratified the Amendment and it was signed into law on July 1st by President Richard Nixon.

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