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Martha May (Olson) Sanford (1872 - 1961)
Martha May (Olson) Sanford, mother to 1 child, was born in 1872. She was born into the Olson family and married into the Sanford family. She married Eugene Theron Sanford on February 14, 1900 and Eugene died. They gave birth to John Theron Sanford. Martha died in 1961 at age 89.
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Martha May (Olson) Sanford, mother to 1 child, passed away in 1961 at 89 years of age. She was born in 1872. She married Eugene Theron Sanford on February 14, 1900 and Eugene died. They gave birth to John Theron Sanford.
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In 1872, in the year that Martha May (Olson) Sanford was born, on May 10th, Victoria Woodhull became the first woman to be nominated for President of the United States. She was too young to qualify for President - a year under the minimum age, 35 - and women couldn't vote but she was nominated by the Equal Rights Party, which supported equal rights and suffrage for women. She didn't appear on the official ballot.
In 1892, when she was 20 years old, on August 4th, the father and stepmother of Lizzie Borden were found murdered. Lizzie was accused of the crime and on June 20th of the next year, she was acquitted of murder by a jury. But she was never acquitted in the public mind.
In 1931, she was 59 years old when on May 1st, the Empire State Building opened in New York City. At 1,454 feet (including the roof and antenna), it was the tallest building in the world until the World Trade Center's North Tower was built in 1970. (It is now the 34th tallest.) Opening at the beginning of the Great Depression, most of the offices in the Empire State Building remained unoccupied for years and the observation deck was an equal source of revenue and kept the building profitable.
In 1958, at the age of 86 years old, Martha was alive when on January 31st, Explorer I, the United States' answer to Sputnik I (and 2,) was launched. America had entered the Space Race. The first spacecraft to detect the Van Allen radiation belt, it remained in orbit until 1970.
In 1961, in the year of Martha May (Olson) Sanford's passing, on May 5th, Navy Cmdr. Alan B. Shepard, Jr., made the first manned Project Mercury flight, MR-3, in a spacecraft he named Freedom 7. He was the second man to go into space, the first was Yuri Gagarin - a Soviet cosmonaut.
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