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Matilda Sweeney 1897 - 1984

Matilda Sweeney of Far Rockaway, Queens County, NY was born on June 6, 1897, and died at age 86 years old in May 1984.
Matilda Sweeney
Far Rockaway, Queens County, NY 11691
June 6, 1897
May 1984
Female
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Matilda Sweeney's History: 1897 - 1984

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  • 06/6
    1897

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    June 6, 1897
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  • 05/dd
    1984

    Death

    May 1984
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    Matilda Sweeney lived 13 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 86.
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In 1897, in the year that Matilda Sweeney 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 1900, by the time she was merely 3 years old, Carrie Chapman Catt succeeded Susan B. Anthony as the president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. NAWSA was created by Anthony in 1890 in order to fight for the right of women to vote in the United States. Membership in NAWSA began at 7,000 and in the decades of the struggle - women didn't get the right to vote until 1920 - membership rose to 2 million.
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